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Boot Camp 3 Rocks!!
Okay, maybe I spoke too soon on Snow Leopard. Or maybe I should just give something more than a day before I discuss it.
Ironically, the best feature coming out of Snow Leopard is Boot Camp 3.0 and here's why.
About two weeks ago, I stupidly downloaded the demo of Batman: Arkham Asylum while I was still booted into OS X. Okay, this in itself was not the stupid part, because I've been using Crossover Games to get my game fix and Crossover Games runs most Windows games just fine.
The problem is, I made a decision long ago to not crud up my Crossover bottle with demos because they take up too much space, so Batman: Arkham Asylum should have been downloaded directly to Windows 7.
Okay, but no problem, right? What's so hard about moving the demo between OS X and Windows?
Well, here's the thing. The demo clocked in at 2 gigabytes and my flash drive only holds 512 MEGABYTES, which presented a problem. While it's perfectly easy to transfer files from my Windows 7 partition into OS X, you can go the other route.
That is, until Snow Leopard came out last Friday. Now, when you install the Windows drivers from the Snow Leopard disk, it automatically installs drivers that let you see all your Mac hard drives.
You can easily move files from your Mac hard drive, although I hit a roadblock when I tried to move a file to my Mac drive while still in Windows. Windows 7 told me that I needed to go into Administration mode, which I have no idea how to do yet. It's not like I use Windows 7 every day (And this security feature obviously keeps your Mac drives free from Windows viruses, which might not be a bad thing).
The important thing here is that I can now see all my drives while in Windows. This alone made Snow Leopard worth the upgrade. On a side note, it's also nice that all my iMac hardware, including the iSight camera, Bluetooth, and the eject button on my keyboard are now officially supported. Those old Vista drivers caused my first Windows 7 install to get corrupted several months ago.
Update: I usually like to link to related profiles on Apple's web site, but for some reason, the link to Boot Camp has been completely removed from the OS X section of the site, which is strange since Boot Camp 3.0 is one of the better features of Snow Leopard. Of course, the tutorial for Boot Camp is still available ( www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=windows ) and I found a rather vague reference here: www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/
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Boot Camp 3 Rocks!!
Okay, maybe I spoke too soon on Snow Leopard. Or maybe I should just give something more than a day before I discuss it.
Ironically, the best feature coming out of Snow Leopard is Boot Camp 3.0 and here's why.
About two weeks ago, I stupidly downloaded the demo of Batman: Arkham Asylum while I was still booted into OS X. Okay, this in itself was not the stupid part, because I've been using Crossover Games to get my game fix and Crossover Games runs most Windows games just fine.
The problem is, I made a decision long ago to not crud up my Crossover bottle with demos because they take up too much space, so Batman: Arkham Asylum should have been downloaded directly to Windows 7.
Okay, but no problem, right? What's so hard about moving the demo between OS X and Windows?
Well, here's the thing. The demo clocked in at 2 gigabytes and my flash drive only holds 512 MEGABYTES, which presented a problem. While it's perfectly easy to transfer files from my Windows 7 partition into OS X, you can go the other route.
That is, until Snow Leopard came out last Friday. Now, when you install the Windows drivers from the Snow Leopard disk, it automatically installs drivers that let you see all your Mac hard drives.
You can easily move files from your Mac hard drive, although I hit a roadblock when I tried to move a file to my Mac drive while still in Windows. Windows 7 told me that I needed to go into Administration mode, which I have no idea how to do yet. It's not like I use Windows 7 every day (And this security feature obviously keeps your Mac drives free from Windows viruses, which might not be a bad thing).
The important thing here is that I can now see all my drives while in Windows. This alone made Snow Leopard worth the upgrade. On a side note, it's also nice that all my iMac hardware, including the iSight camera, Bluetooth, and the eject button on my keyboard are now officially supported. Those old Vista drivers caused my first Windows 7 install to get corrupted several months ago.
Update: I usually like to link to related profiles on Apple's web site, but for some reason, the link to Boot Camp has been completely removed from the OS X section of the site, which is strange since Boot Camp 3.0 is one of the better features of Snow Leopard. Of course, the tutorial for Boot Camp is still available ( www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=windows ) and I found a rather vague reference here: www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/
Related Links: