Thinking of going for a Winbook Pro, but...

Hi.

I'm currently biding my time for both Leopard and Vista's SP1 release before my next big purchase, and have been reading up on Boot Camp, Parallells and Fusion in the meantime. Now, all in all, I'm pretty excited about being able to consolidate two (or more) very diferent operating systems into the one machine, and can see a great many benefits in so doing, but I've stumbled across two... relatively minor.... gripes about the change to Apple hardware and would like to guage some opinion/options in fixing them. Most will likely think these are silly issues but as a user I can see them getting old, fast.

As I understand it the Boot Camp driver disk includes absolutely nothing for the ambient light sensor, nor the scrolling touchpad hardware. Meaning that booting into Windows will leave me completely scroll-less beyond an external mouse/PgUp + PgDn, and will make the self adjusting brightness hardware completely redundant.

Firstly, why? Is it just stubbornness on behalf of Apple to veto this functionality for the Windows partition?... and secondly, are there any third party drivers/software installs that will remedy this functionality for the Windows partition?

I can't get my head around why both features aren't shared by default, however I am also of the understanding that even the backlit keyboard itself was only just mapped across in the latest Boot Camp beta.

Your thoughts/possible workarounds on these two issues would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Oh, one other thing I forgot to ask... do Fusion/Parallels/Boot Camp support multiple monitors?

Cheers!

 

they arent supported yet, and we're expecting that with the final release of bootcamp that comes with leopard that all these driver issues will be sorted out by then. and i know bootcamp supports multiple monitors and i would think that parallels and fusion would as well but im not sure about those two.

 

First of all, amid all this buzz you have to remember Boot Camp is still a Beta. You expect features to be lacking and you're testing it for Apple right now. The missing features you stated are most likely going to be included in the final version of Boot Camp, in October with Leopard.

I see no where that says Fusion and Parallels can't support multiple monitors...so I'm assuming it can.