Woah: OS X on 24" and Windows XP on MBP = priceless.

This is awesome. I finally broke down and got VMWare Fusion, and it's fabulous! Took 10 seconds to set up, and it runs pretty darn well on my setup. I have Leopard open on my external display and Windows XP full screen on my MBP. It's like having 2 computers.

Any funky tricks you can tell me about, Sam?

 

Rawr! That's pretty hot, except you can't expect to tantalize us that way without posting some pics dude! How much ram you got?

 

Rawr! 4GB. I'll get some pictures up soon.

 

soon as in right now?

 

I just got 4GB for my MBP so I can do the same. I plan on having Vista, OSX, and XP all running on the same time, on different spaces in Leopard.

 

ive been quite pleased with XP in parallels.

that said, Vista runs like crap in Fusion/Parallels IMO. i have a new 2.2 MB, along with 4GB of ram (2gb given to vista), and a 200gb 7200.

both companies have some work to do to get me to use either of their products with vista.

XP is all i need though

 

Yeah, I originally had Vista installed on the Boot Camp partition, and ran it through Fusion but the performance wasn't there. Switched back to XP. Maybe Vista service pack 1 will change things around...

 

While I only have 2GB of memory, I'd say Parallel's is pretty slow in comparison to Boot Camp. Windows XP is much more responsive in Boot Camp.

We should turn this into a thread where anyone with dual monitors can show off their dual-OS work environments. :X

 

How about this weekend?

 

Of course Bootcamp is more responsive. Natively running an OS is going to be a heck of a lot better than emulation!

That said, it's pretty sad that Office 2003 for Windows through VMWare runs SO much better than Office 2004 for Mac running natively!

Can't wait for Office 2008 for Mac. Intel support for the win!

 

Alrighty. Here are some pictures. I just put this room together with this equipment, so excuse the haphazardness of it all.

Without Windows XP:



With Windows XP!:

 

Wow, how neat.

Would you mind if I posted a couple of pics of my set-up for comparison? :X

 

Sure! But if you start posting pictures of it on a TV, I'll have to whip out my Samsung TV 1080p LCD for comparison

 

Than get your camera ready.

 

Parallels and VMWare are not emulators. They are Virtual Machines, quite a different beast. Of course, running the real thing is still faster...

 

Wow, nice, William!

 

Alright, here we go. I resized the pictures for everyone.

Picture 1:
Laptop and TV in same picture. OS X Leopard on laptop, Windows XP on TV.


Picture 2:
Close-up of 47" LCD TV and Windows XP desktop. My TV looks so small in this picture.


Picture 3:
Look at all those wires, DVI-to-HDMI 30ft cable, USB Cable that goes to a HUB, than the FireWire 800 cable that you can tap and it'll damn near fall out of the socket.


Picture 4:
Printer, 2TB External Hard Disk, and 250GB External Hard Disk for Time Machine, as well as a wireless controller for gaming in XP.


Picture 5:
I couldn't resist posting a BSOD.

 

Blah! Everyone's so rich!

 

Where? Ask them to lend me some money! *falls*

Seriously, though. For quite a few years I was helping my mother and father out with their car payment with my disability checks. Than when my father FINALLY won his disability suit, he let me have about $6,000 to get everything I wanted. My laptop had failed a few months before he got his check, so I went without a computer for awhile.

I still have my laptop, my first one, and I'll never part with it. *laughs*

Picture 1:


Picture 2:


Picture 3:


Picture 4:

 

You're not seriously making me hook it up to my 46" Samsung, are you?

I wish there was a dock for the Macbook Pro... *sigh*

NICE setup there!

 

*laughs* Nah, man. You've got a great set-up. Mine's more/less for bed-ridden patients, which is why I went with the LCD TV instead of an external monitor. I thought about getting a desk when we moved, but after sitting up in my parents desk chair for a few hours, I said to hell with that idea. Playing on a computer isn't fun if you're zonked out on Oxycodon because of the pain. Stupid chairs. They need to make lazy-boy recliners for computer desks.

Yeah, a dock would be nice for an MBP. That and an easily upgradeable hard disk.

 

I like the usage of the MBP's box! Very nice.

 

*laughs* Yeah, of all the crap I bought to protect my MBP in travel, I never got anything for it to set on while on the bed, so I just used the box. It's better than the medical tape I used on my older laptop to hold the plastic together, at least. Plus, I can use the handle on the box to push the laptop away or closer to me.

 

way to rep the students sam.
ha i get most of my expensive electronic-related things for xmas/b-day.

 

Nice desktops William, would you mind giving me a link to them?

 

Nice setups, both William and coyote. I'd post mine as well (my W7S hooked up to my Bravia KDL-46V2500 [Sony 46" 1080p LCD]), but it doesn't feature an Apple product... My iMac is pretty much stationary, so yea.

 

Thanks! I think I got some of them from here:

http://www.desktopmachine.com/cars/17-Bugatti wallpapers.html?t=43

And the rest from here:

http://www.exoticcarsite.com/pages/bugatti-veyron-2005.htm

 

with asmany times as we get off-topic here, i dont think it'll matter. you have permission

 

quick question: when you run xp on the mbp, do you get xp's open-windows icons along the bottom like on a pc, or are you still deprived of that in favour of the bothersome and virtually uselsss row of program icons like the standard mac setup? (which belong stacked or compressed into a "quick launch" area like in windows, IMO, as most of the things on the mbp dock are rarely used, or not being used at the time, unlike the open windows the Mac makes you go fisshing for one app at a time).

i do alot of browsing and emailing, and the thing i miss most about windows is the ability to see a toggleable list of everything you have open at a glance, rather than having to click the Mail icon to see what's open in that, then the Safari icon to see what's open there. i'm used to be able to toggle between multiple emails and webpages without having to hunt for them, and would happily install XP to use for web browsing without having to give up the superior production capability of OSX.

othereise i'm gonna have a 2k laptop that can only be used for one thing and will have to buy a second puter as the daily driver. i'd really rather not have my life in 2 different boxes.

 

All I can say is running XP on a Mac is like running XP on a PC. Exactly, 100% the same. So everything you're used to on a PC is right there, and - of course - even better in Bootcamp.

 

Sweet Jesus, Mother Mary and Joseph!

(I'm not very biblical, but those are some AWESOME setups!)

 

sweet, i'm golden, got a bulletproof machine and get to keep all my old habits, hehe,, thanks William!

now if they'd only start making aftermarket trackpads for the mbp that don't jump off the scrollbar after a few taps i'd be tickled pink..