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    My first mac ever. MacBook Pro 13

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Cape Consultant, Jul 23, 2011.

  1. Cape Consultant

    Cape Consultant SSD User

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    with thunderbolt too! Must admit, I am very impressed. Time Machine is slick. Have parallels for Windows but will be trying bootcamp as well. I am hoping the 2 methods are not mutually exclusive :)

    Well built, great screen. Looks like my years of comparison shopping paid off. I had it down to this or a Lenovo.

    Dave
     
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    Congratulations! Nice machine. I'm using parallels Desktop 6 with my Windows 7 Bootcamp. They are not mutually exclusive. Just need to be sure that Parallels "Tools" are installed after the VM is built. It will step you though that. Parallel tools allows you to run the bootcamp Windows environment via parallels without having any MS activation conflicts with the Bootcamp windows environment.

    I can boot up into Windows bootcamp or I can choose to access that same environment via Parallels while in OS X.

    Enjoy!
     
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    Nice! I'm about to recieve mine this coming week :) can't wait for it!
     
    XxLblinkxX, Jul 24, 2011
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    Can you run VMWare on MacBook Pro?
     
    chukwe, Jul 24, 2011
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    thanks all. I have both setup and they seem to be working. Took me awhile to figure out how to be able to choose one on boot. Answer: Option key! Seems like a really fun machine. I will be traveling with it this week.
     
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    You can also choose which one it automatically boots to using the bootcamp tool in Windows or the Start Disk settings under System Preferences in OS X. I about pooed myself whenever I installed Windows 7 on my MBP via bootcamp and had it automatically boot back into that OS after everything was done. Its as if Apple predicted that people installing Windows would want to use that as their primary OS.
     
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    LOL! Yeah, that happened to me too!
     
    Cape Consultant, Jul 24, 2011
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