Multimedia-PCs » boot camp http://www.multimedia-pcs.com HTPC, Gadgets, Technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Boot Camp Updated with Windows 7 Support http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/boot-camp-updated-with-windows-7-support/ http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/boot-camp-updated-with-windows-7-support/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:39:52 +0000 Jeremy Jones http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/?p=1712

Apple has updated Boot Camp to support Windows 7. They released a 32-bit and 64-bit version. They have support for Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. They also added support for the Magic Mouse in Windows. The question that has come up a lot that is fixed now is the red LED on the digital audio port is now off. I deployed 35 MacBook Pros with about 6 running Windows 7 and I’m glad to finally have the update. Anyone that has tried to get Windows 7 installed and all drivers running knows it had been a problem.

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]]> http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/boot-camp-updated-with-windows-7-support/feed/ 0 Boot Camp + rEFIt = nice computer lab http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/boot-camp-refit-nice-computer-lab/ http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/boot-camp-refit-nice-computer-lab/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:23:00 +0000 Jeremy Jones http://www.jeremywjones.com/projects/multimedia-pcs/wordpress/?p=132

Well this past summer we traded our Dell’s for intel iMacs. The release of boot camp made our choice that much easier. Here in our building we use Macs just as we do Windows machines. So the intel iMacs would give us machines that could handle whatever OS was needed. So basically one machine could be used as 2. Since we were replacing the Dells which was our Windows lab the intel iMacs were going to be used as Windows machines most of the time. While boot camp would have allowed us to run the machines the way we wanted we wanted more. rEFIt was the answer. http://refit.sourceforge.net/ rEFIt when the computer boots gives a menu for what OS you want. It was originally designed for booting Linux on the intel’s. I know that you can choose what OS you want by holding down “option”. But when the computer labs are being used by hundreds of students a week it wasn’t an option to tell them all. By using rEFIt the student can easily see how to get to the OS that they want. Like I said the lab is primarily a Windows lab, we allow the students to use OS X. Another great feature is that when we hold clases in the lab we can support teachers and software that use both platforms.

Like I said we set this up this summer. So it has been running for 6 months with no issues. We use netrestore to image the machines. With netrestore you can image either OS without affecting the other. I have heard people complain about boot camp but for our situation and a lab setup it is a perfect setup. We are planning on upgrading out other lab in the next year or so with this setup. It currently has eMacs.

Below are the pictures I took earlier today. It shows the rEFIt screen we customized and also the lab half and half Windows and Mac. All the machines are on active directory. If you have questions just post in the comments.

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