Thinking about apple macbookw/bootcamp. have some questions

OK I was looking at the 2Ghz,macbook 15in. gonna have 2gig of ram and of course the 256mb video card.

Now, without getting an argument on why I shouldn't I want to use about 90-95% of the time with windows xp and the rest with apple. I was gonna install bootcamp. The reason for apple is work will help fork over the bill since I would use it at work w/apple side of things.

How stable is the bootcamp? Anything that doesn't work? I heard keyboard light and camera doesnt work. Anything else? Does everything else work ok?

I would play games on it. I heard that WOW SHOULD play on full details on native resolution on the pc side, but not so hot on the apple. Is that true?

Please fill me in on what I would be getting myself into.

 

Just to add to the OP's question:

When using Windows XP under bootcamp, can you hook up a 2 button mouse (intended for PC use) and utilize the right click used in XP?

 

It's unknown - I haven't heard about any problems with USB ports and BootCamp, so I'd assume yes. The mouse will give you the right click option (and will also give you the right click option if OS X too).

 

I have a Macbook Pro with Boot Camp and I use Windows most of the time. It works perfectly, hardware is ok except the keyboard light and the iSight camera. I use a 2-button Logitech bluetooth mouse and it works great. Overall, my MBP feels just as any other Windows laptop - but SO better for quality and look!
Have a look at www.onmac.net for a lot of info about Boot Camp and other methods to load Windows on Mac (e.g. virtualization).

 

well I picked it up. Didnt install yet as I dont have my windows cd with me at work. I did come across a MAJOR issue. The Harddrive from a 100gb is down to 74gb without anything installed. I was gonna do a 30/70 split, but doing that would leave me with like 5gb left for the apple.

 

Hello, starstreak!
Please keep us updated on how bootcamp and XP work on MBP. I'm in a situation, pretty similar to yours before (mean considering ab MBP). How are the games?

BTW how's that heat and noise issue? What's your serial number?
& WHere did you get your MBP? Over internet, no?

Sorry for that many questions, but I'm really in need of additional information.

 

dunno about bootcamp. still waiting to get home. I play world of warcraft, but it places bad on the macbook 2ghz w/2gb ram. I get like 17fps outdoors and 30-50fps in a room, and like 10-12fps in major cities

 

sorry starstreak - i don't get you. are you saying that your harddrive is only 74gb instead of 100gb or that mac osx + all the programs already take up more than 20 gb?

 

And you mean, that WOW doesn't run OK on 2Ghz MAcbook, the one, which is currently sold everywehere? Is it under XP?

 

Yes and yes. My 100gb drive fresh from apple store had only 74gb free. 100 to 94gb from the format. and 94-74(20gb) is all apple.

I installed windows. Man I wish people did this before I bought mine so I would've known. Some of this I knew b4. Beyboard backlight no work. Audio optical light is on all the time. Isight camera no work. Battery life in windows says 2hrs. I cant seem to figure out how to click by tapping mouse pad. Very jirky movement on mousepad. screen brightness seems to go from 100 to 50% brightness. Then from there it moves normal. 50-40-30-20-10 etc for brightness. I dont think hibernate works.

Wow is bad on my mac on mac side. 17fps. outdoors (random number. it varies from 12-50fps, but average is around 17fps)

Wow on my mac in WINDOWS. 32fps average. Outdoors 35-50fps and this is with everything on. And 2x oversampling.

Btw, unit gets very hot. In either Apple or windows mode.

 

i'll install 3dmark and stuff since apple people dont use that.

 

Hmm...

Your HD problems sounds very odd - HDs are actually smaller than really are due to a variation in what actually is a GB. We are familiar with the normal 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB, however, HD makers and FlashDrive use the 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB. This can cause confusion and a loss of memory when you convert 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB to 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB (link to Wikipedia for full definition). However, even so, that doesn't appear to be correct. I might try a refomat if possible and see if that remedies the problem.

 

eh true. I'll do that as a last resort. Apple said I had 74.something gb free before I started removing a bunch of stuff. I know the format itself dropped the 100 to like 94gig.
Per windows Computer Managment my harddrive looks like: 200mb (GPT Protective Partition),30gb APPLE partition, 128mb unallocated (why, I dunno), 62.84GB NTFS (PC partition)