MS Vista on a MacBookPro
Recently I installed Microsoft Vista Release Candidate 2 on my MacBookPro using Paralells.
So far it seems to be fast, stable and very attractive. So far I've only been running Office 2007, FrontPage 2003 and Firefox, but I plan on installing a 3D CAD program soon to really stress it out. I must say that I'm just doing this because I'm a total tech geek and I just want to see how it works. I'm VERY happy with the Mac OS and I don't see myself using Windows Vista for any real work.
The installation was pretty straight forward and I didn't have any problems untill after the install and Vista was running, I could not get it to recognize my network card. I ended up going to my other computer and downloading a Realtek RTL8029 driver (that what Parallels emulates) and then burning that driver to a CD ROM and putting in my MacBookPro and manually installing driver from the CD ROM. After that it worked like a charm.
My MacBookPro is the 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2 GB of RAM.
If you are going to try this, make sure you have the version of Parallels that support Vista available here
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Max,
I'm pretty sure it was not a Vista driver, I think it might have been an XP driver (sorry, that was nearly 5 months ago now, mmy memory is failing me on that detail).
Where did you find the driver? The Realtek website does not have a driver for Windows Vista
Is that really what the Vista UI is going to look like? What a muddle.
How much RAM do you have to allocate for the Vista VM? Seems like it could take a good chunk out of your Mac Book Pro's 2GB.