Category Archives: Windows on Mac

All things related to using Windows on your Mac.

Laptops: Apple is the Vista Speed King

Ouch. Apple spanks PC vendors in PC World speed tests. Yep, a Mac Book Pro runs Vista faster than any other laptop they’ve tested. Via Daring Fireball.
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Apple Makes Running Windows Easier, Sony Not So Much

Steven Frank of Panic Inc., makers of the truly stupendous Transmit FTP client, has to use Windows on occasion. His lengthy saga explaining how difficult it is to clean up and reinstall Windows on a Sony VAIO is instructive.
When he first booted the brand-new machine, he was greeted with this horror, which should be familiar [...]

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Exam Software Facts

I’ve been running Mac Law Students for a year and a half, and I attend a school that uses SofTest without Boot Camp support. You think I’d have gone to the IT department and raised hell by now. But I haven’t.
I have corresponded with them briefly by email, and have read their reasons for not [...]

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Leopards and iPhones on Safari

The Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) keynote by Steve Jobs this morning revealed more about Leopard’s upcoming capabilities. In short, it appears that Leopard will be anything but an incremental release. If this were a Microsoft OS, they’d be calling it Windows Panorama, rather than Windows Vista SP 1.
Leopard won’t arrive until October, but [...]

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Installing Vista on Macs in a Law Office

Jeffrey Allen shares his Vista installation experience at the ABA’s MacNotes.
He installed Vista on a Lenovo laptop, a 20″ iMac, and a MacBook Pro. Oddly enough, the MacBook Pro proved to be the machine that took to Vista with the fewest problems. If you are interested in using Vista on a Mac (or on a [...]

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