Boot Camp WinXP

Ok, booted into WinXP another time to test the Boot Camp fixed update on EFI firmware update previously.

No, I don’t see changes on the timing on both Mac OS and WinXP after boot. Timing lost at least 4 hours each other still. Or maybe I did not use the latest Boot Camp version? As I know I’m downloading version 1.1.2 beta, or there is actually a better version? Well, everything still works well though, especially when I use my Adobe softwares on WinXP in Macbook. It was amazingly well and speed was so far the fastest I seen, even faster than Mac OS to be honest. Although Mac OS X was built with killer graphic especially this Macbook which claimed to have ATI Graphic, but still, opening applications can’t compare with Windows. In terms of speed, I will still rate Windows as number one so far. Probably because these applications was built on Windows and then re-code to Mac OS, some mistake/bug/or whatever you called it might appear though, who knows?

Dual boot WinXP is actually very easy. All you have to remember is to select C:/ drive when you’re prompt to the blue-screen (Not the death one). It just like what I did with Wine on Ubuntu, for my point of view, Boot Camp works somewhat like Wine, which they will create a fake C drive and let Windows to install on it, of course in Boot Camp case, they use BIOS to boot up so Windows knows it, Macintosh boot with EFI.

Funny thing is Microsoft is going to remove the EFI support on the final release of Windows Vista, what the heck are they thinking? Windows Vista Beta and RC1 were both support EFI boot up! I mean, if Vista final release support EFI, I’m sure they will be a lot of Macintosh users will switch back to Windows? Especially those who are still new to Macintosh (Maybe me?)

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