Vista runs better on MacBook Pro
updated 09:05 am EDT, Mon September 11, 2006
Vista runs on MacBook Pro
Apple's high-end laptop runs Vista better than a high-end Sony Vaio: a new report found a "Windows Experience Index" of 3.6 on the (older) Sony Vaio VGN-A790 laptop--compared with a "WEI" of 4.7 on the newer dual-core MacBook Pro, which it noted was in part due to the newer Intel processor and better ATI video card. The "hardware" report, the first in Computerworld's series about the use of Windows Vista on a MacBook Pro, notes a few shortcomings of running Vista on the Mac laptop using Apple's Bootcamp technology, including the lack of Windows' right-click (solved by instaling a separate third-party application called Apple Mouse), the inability to eject disks from the SuperDrive using the eject key on the keyboard (users can still use the menu in Vista), and the lack of elegant solution to boot back into Mac OS X, and some heat and battery consumption issues--due to the lack of power management functions.
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Elegant reboot?
The most elegant way (because the graphics are better looking than within Windows) is to hold down the option key during reboot and select which volume you want. It works and looks great on my MacPro with a 23" Cinema Display. As you can imagine, with such a large screen surface and such high resolution, the visual differences between OS X and Windows stand out even more than they did before.
Boot camps biggest success for Apple will be in showing people in direct side by side comparisons in dens around the world that Microsoft designed Windows to be merely functional (although most of the time I question even that). Apple on the other hand designed OS X to be functional AND easy AND productive AND beautiful. That will be boot camps legacy. Convincing switchers who need time to try things out for themselves.