Boot Camp

As hard as I've tried, I just can't get mac and windows to video conference. Even though AOL IM is supposed to be compatible with iChat, it rarely works, and if it does it lags heavily.

Anyway, since my MacBook Pro is Intel based, Apple have created a clever piece of software called Boot Camp (Still Beta). What this does is partition your hdd, burn a CD full of Windows drivers, and then lets you install windows natively. That's right, no virtual machine nonsense, Windows XP just installs and dual boots with OSX!

You might say that this beats the purpose of having a mac, and it does. But I only installed it for one reason, to be able to MSN video conference from the laptop. Problem is, after ages of disk burning and installing, I found out that the built-in iSight camera is NOT supported under Windows! Talk about bummer!!
Rumour has it that Apple will never release iSight drivers for Windows, as the camera is of exceptional quality and they don't want it to run under Windows. Other rumours say that the next OS X (Leopard) will have the full version of Boot Camp that will support the iSight.

Performance of windows is quite good, I tried a few things here and there and it performs like any average current laptop. I ran Iconoclast too and that worked fine. Don't ask me how Oblivion or FEAR run on it, this is not a gaming laptop, it's just a mac :)

So, now i have 2 os's on the macbook. I haven't removed windows just in case I might need it (there are rare occasions), and I'm sure when the full Boot Camp is out the camera will be working. I hope :)