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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2008MacBook: Leopard question
Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that Bootcamp works best for gaming. However, when I purchased my MacBook a year ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks like I'd have to buy Leopard? If so, do I need to uninstall Parallel and WindowsXP first? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Karla > Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that > Bootcamp works best for gaming. Depends on the game. Have you tried it with Parallels? > However, when I purchased my MacBook a year > ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks > like I'd have to buy Leopard? Yes. The Boot Camp beta that Apple pulished prior to Mac OS X 10.5 has expired, so the onlyway to get Boot Camp legally is to purchase Mac OS X 10.5. > If so, do I need to uninstall Parallel and > WindowsXP first? Any help is much appreciated. BTW, it's "Parallels (plural) Desktop". The Mac OS X 10.5 install DVD does have an "upgrade" option, which is the default selection if your system already has a previous release of Mac OS X installed. Upgrading leave all applications installed, for the most part. Note: I've had the 10.5 upgrade fail on several Macs, so do a *thorough* backup first. Be prepared to do an "Erase and Install" should things go wrong. Apple could greatly improve Mac OS X 10.5's upgrade quality, if you ask me.  SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. > >Depends on the game. Have you tried it with Parallels? I've tried one of them with Parallels (spelling noted!), and it's very choppy. >> However, when I purchased my MacBook a year >> ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >wrong. Apple could greatly improve Mac OS X 10.5's upgrade quality, if >you ask me. Good advice. Thank you so much. Karla >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. > >Depends on the game. Have you tried it with Parallels? More information: I installed Shadowbane and patched it. I'm getting an "software opengl context" message and then an access violation message. Searching on Google I found that newer versions of Parallels (3.0?) offers support for directx and opengl. Since Parallels is faking the video driver, am I going down a road I don't want to? should I abandon all hope and go directly to jail? Buy Boot Camp? Thanks again, Karla >> However, when I purchased my MacBook a year >> ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >wrong. Apple could greatly improve Mac OS X 10.5's upgrade quality, if >you ask me. > >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that > >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > am I going down a road I don't want to? should I abandon all hope and go > directly to jail? Buy Boot Camp? Well, "buy Mac OS X 10.5", anyway. Yes, I'm betting that's your best solution. While Parallels did add hardware acceleration support, it's not perfect by any stretch, and likely won't run your game without issue. If you instead boot Windows directly, your game will have native hardware acceleration on your Mac. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR >> >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that >> >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >issue. If you instead boot Windows directly, your game will have native >hardware acceleration on your Mac. Thanks! I was checking into the free upgrade to Parallels and got stumped with one of their questions. Which build? Can't find the answer anywhere. It's not apparent from "About this Mac" or "More Info". Karla >>> >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that >>> >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Karla More Googling and I found the answer - click the version number. Pretty cool! Karla > I was checking into the free upgrade to Parallels and got stumped > >with one of their questions. Which build? Can't find the answer anywhere. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Karla Oh i thought you meant the *Parallels Desktop* build number... SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > I was checking into the free upgrade to Parallels and got stumped > with one of their questions. Which build? Can't find the answer anywhere. > It's not apparent from "About this Mac" or "More Info". It's here: Parallels menu bar > Parallels Desktop > About Parallels Desktop. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that > Bootcamp works best for gaming. However, when I purchased my MacBook a year > ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks > like I'd have to buy Leopard? If so, do I need to uninstall Parallel and > WindowsXP first? Any help is much appreciated. Yes, you need Leopard, but Parallels does work on Leopard. However, for you to use Boot Camp, you will need to create a separate Windows XP partition on your MacBook's hard disk. This will mean a separate Windows install there as well. (I don't know if there are any good tools for migrating from a Parallels disk image to a Boot Camp partition.) The good news is, Parallels can run Windows installed on such a partition, so you won't need separate Boot Camp and Paralells installation once you get everything moved over to Boot Camp. You can use Boot Camp when you want to play games and use Parallels when you want to use Mac and Windows applications together, all from the same Windows installation. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. However, when I purchased my MacBook a year [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >good tools for migrating from a Parallels disk image to a Boot Camp >partition.) I haven't intalled an OS in some time. Hopefully, I'll be prompted to create this partition? >The good news is, Parallels can run Windows installed on such a >partition, so you won't need separate Boot Camp and Paralells >installation once you get everything moved over to Boot Camp. You can >use Boot Camp when you want to play games and use Parallels when you >want to use Mac and Windows applications together, all from the same >Windows installation. That's great! I know that I was offered the opportunity of buying either Boot Camp or Parallels when I bought my MacBook, but I was unfamiliar with them and thought they were the same type of program. Alas... Thanks! Karla > >> Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that > >> Bootcamp works best for gaming. However, when I purchased my MacBook a year [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I haven't intalled an OS in some time. Hopefully, I'll be prompted to > create this partition? That's basically what the Boot Camp program is for, creating this partition and configuring it so your Mac can boot from it. > >The good news is, Parallels can run Windows installed on such a > >partition, so you won't need separate Boot Camp and Paralells [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Boot Camp or Parallels when I bought my MacBook, but I was unfamiliar with > them and thought they were the same type of program. Alas... You might have been offered VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Those ARE the same sort of program. (Boot Camp is a feature of Leopard, not a separate program.) SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > You might have been offered VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Those ARE the > same sort of program. (Boot Camp is a feature of Leopard, not a > separate program.) And to add to the confusion, previously (only) a feature of Tiger. SignatureWhat is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged by different standards than what is leisurely planned in comfortable conference rooms. > > You might have been offered VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Those ARE the > > same sort of program. (Boot Camp is a feature of Leopard, not a > > separate program.) > > And to add to the confusion, previously (only) a feature of Tiger. That's not correct. The beta of Boot Camp was available to Tiger users as a downloaded program. It was never a feature of Tiger, and never shipped with Tiger. SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com |
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