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Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.1

Apple has quietly posted an update to Boot Camp to version 1.1. According to the Boot Camp page, the new version remains in beta and contains many updates for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users.

New features include:

Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
iSight camera support
Support for built-in microphones
Right-click when pressing the right-hand Apple key on Apple keyboards
Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys

Boot Camp is Apple's Windows-on-the-Mac solution, allowing owners of Intel-based Macs to install and boot Windows XP alongside Mac OS X. Unlike virtualization solutions, Apple's solution requires you to reboot your machine to switch from one operating system to another.

Boot Camp was originally released in April 2006, and the final version is expected in Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 which is due in the Spring of 2007.

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72 months ago
Apple just released beta 1.1 of Boot Camp which includes the following:

Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
iSight camera support
Support for built-in microphones
Right-click when pressing the right-hand Apple key on Apple keyboards
Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys

Get it at http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/.

Someone try this on a Mac Pro!
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72 months ago
I am downloading it right now, will try the drivers CD on my mac pro to see if they work.
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72 months ago
Great! I'm also downloading it (202 Mb? WTF?) and will try it on my MacBook when I find my copy of Windows.

Looking forward to hearing your results on the Mac Pro!
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72 months ago

(202 Mb? WTF?)

It contains all the drivers for the iMac/MacBook/MBP and Mac Pro hardware variations. What did you expect?

What they should consider is make the installer download the drivers and create the ISO image on the fly for your given hardware...

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72 months ago
Maybe this will fix the problem I have when partitioning..
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72 months ago
Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
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72 months ago

Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk

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72 months ago
Dang, just the day after I installed XP using Boot Camp for the first time ...
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72 months ago

I thought

.....was a bigger hint.


Too obvious! :rolleyes:

(I guess you could kludge another "internal" drive into some of the consumer Macs, by removing the optical drive and/or bringing one of the SATA lines external to the enclosure.)


Sounds like Frankenstein's bride...
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72 months ago

Sounds like Frankenstein's bride...

;) Meet the bride: http://theminiblog.co.uk/archives/2006/05/01/mac-mini-external-sata-mod/

I knew I had seen it done somehwere....

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