Use boot camp as image inside parallels

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Wow..that i can say, today i try open my parallels and found out that i can mount boot camp image inside my parallels. So i can continue working on window without make fresh installation on parallels. But still cannot play heavy graphic games. I still can play heavy graphic games but must restart and boot again boot camp.

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Choose your boot camp image.

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Parallels start up

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Fan Control for MacBook Pro Boot Camp

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

My MBP(MacBook Pro) running so hot when i’m using window xp in boot camp - actually i’m playing some heavy graphic game :) .Why it so hot ?…I heard one of the reasons that why Windows runs hotter than OSX is because it defaults the fan at 1000RMP instead of 2000RPM w/o proper driver support.

Default fan for OXS is around 2000RPM. So what i’m suggesting here based on my experiece..i’m install smcFanControl. I’m setting fancontrol to HigherRPM when using Window xp. You cannot setting it inside window xp. So must set inside OSX then restart and load window xp again. The setting will remain.

FanControl lets the user adjust the minimum speed of the built in fans. So you can increase the minimum speed to make your Intel Mac run cooler, as well as monitor temperature and fan speed.

Here some screenshot from my OSX :

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Install window xp using Boot Camp on Mac

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Before this, i’m install window using parallels. Parallels running side by side with Mac os, that means starts using mac os first then choose application parallels. But boot camp is a different boot from mac os. That means using dual boot. can choose whether wanna start up mac os or window os.

So i try to install window using boot camp. Wanna see how to install it. It is easy to setup?.. Yaaa…very easy to setup.

  1. Need window xp with service pack 2 or later. You must use a single full-install Windows installation disc (Service Pack 2 is required for Windows XP installations). Do not use an upgrade version of Windows and do not install an earlier version of Windows XP and attempt to update it later to SP2 or
    later. Use only 32-bit versions of Windows. If you have a Mac Pro or a MacBook Pro introduced in early 2008 or later, you can use a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
  2. Open Boot Camp Assistant (located in /Applications/Utilities/) and follow the onscreen
    instructions.
  3. Create new partition for window. Just drag the the line. I’m give my window 40GB space. :)
  4. After finish create the partition, insert your window xp cd and wait until mac mount your cd content. (more…)

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