The Mac Chronicles
Boot Camp
Being not quite ready to cut the cord yet, installation of Boot Camp and XP was the next step. The Boot Camp Assistant prepared the drive destined for XP and burned a CD containing Windows hardware drivers.
I then prepared a slipstreamed XPSP2 installation CD using nLite. Installation of XP went very smoothly. I did have to coax device manager into using the sound driver, but didn’t encounter any other issues.
Several hours, innumerable software update applications and about 26 reboots later, Microsoft Update was finally convinced that the service was up to date. All my normal productivity applications ran properly.
Next step was to try something a bit more difficult; Battlefield 2, at 1600×1200 with all the video options set on high. Nearly unplayable, but only in the sense that there was no lag at all; I was leading my targets too much. Glassy smooth. Like butter.
Well, the marketing was correct; this thing runs Windows natively at warp speed.
Next stop, virtualization.
