Here it is…….

  My iMac running Windows XP Pro SP2.

What a sight.

In the words on my good friend Dr. H “Cool. But ewwww! That’s like looking at a Ferrari with the interior of a Kia!”

Here is another pic -

  - Notice the Intel T7400 2.16G CPU.

This one is of the system properties and the device manager.

Look Ma… No Bangs! – That’s right, not one issue in the DM. But what do you expect from apple, they make great software so of course they are going to have great drivers that make everything work. Hell even the apple remote works!

So now I find myself wondering…… “What the hell did I do this for?”

Oh yeah – - Games……But now that I have put MMORPG’s on the back burner for a while I don’t play any games that I can’t get a Mac version of. The only one was Star Wars Galaxies. So maybe tonight I will install it on the winMac to see how it does with the directx and such. We shall see how spunky I feel.

So some people may want to know what I did. Well it was simple.

Here is how.

First off you have to  get a Windows XP that has SP2 built in. There is a way to copy your original disk and add the SP2 update if you want, but that’s not a process I will go into here.

With the Win XP SP2 disk in hand I downloaded Bootcamp 1.2 from apple.com/bootcamp this is an application that is supplied as a Beta from apple. This application will partition your Mac hard drive on the fly. This makes a partition for you to install windows on. I chose to make the partition 30 gigs.. Over 32 gigs and I would have had to format the drive with Windows NTFS file system, which is fine except for one issue – Mac can read NTFS but can not write to it, so if you want to transfer files from the Mac partition to the Windows partition you need to format it with FAT32. Hence I just did a 30 gig partition.

This bootcamp app is slick, it has a little slide bar that you just drag to the size of the partition you want and it will make it. It does it on the fly too leaving all your Mac data intact. Which is one of the things I was a little scared about, as I hate to lose data.

After the disk is partitioned it will ask you to put in a blank CD to make the drivers disk. This process was quick, it kicked out the disk in under 3 min. Once the disk is created it prompts you to put in the Windows XP disk and it will start the install……

The screen goes black…….. The system reboots…..

There is the all familiar line at the top of the screen – “setup is inspecting your hardware configuration”

Whamo! right into the windows install we go.

This was by far one of the fastest windows install I have been through, it was complete in about 20 min. I put in the drivers disk and it installed everything windows asked for. one last restart and there she was.

Windows XP running on my Mac.

TTFN.