So I am now using a 17" MacBook Pro CoreDuo (yes an older one) running Leopard. I admit so for Boot Camp has not been a selling point for me. So far I'd just rather use Parallels or VMWare Fusion (I would recommend both products), but I figured with MacBook Pro I might want to take advantage of Hardware (like the video to play games), so I figured I'd install XP on Boot Camp. I got a black screen with an error about a missing file. I check the forums, and I tried all the suggestions, reformatting the Boot Camp partition, trying different XP discs, I even reformatted the Mac, tried a fresh install of Leopard. Still the same. Apple refused to support it after "the Windows installer started". A few days earlier I was asked about this problem by someone, but since I had never seen it before I didn't have answer. I still don't. I tried the Boot Camp beta under Tiger and it worked great (on a MacBook Core2Duo), but Boot Camp 2.0 under Leopard is, as fas as I'm concerned, is a complete failure. Or maybe it's just Windows.
Addendum: It seems the best fix is takes a lot of time and going back to the Tiger beta to get XP installed then upgrade to Leopard. It was a great beta.
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Have you heard about this?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/14/microsoft.xp.ap/index.html
Fear not for as the percent of mac users grows the windoze only applications will move towards being multi-platform. as for what to do right now, VM ware is the way to go in my eyes.
It seems even though Micro$oft is going to halt XP sales Junes 30 (even though they are putting out SP3 and there is an XP market for small things like the Eee PC) Dell 9as much as I loathe them) is defying the M$ BS and selling it with and on machines after the cut off.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/microsoft-says-xp-is-defintely-dead-in-june-dell-says-itll-kee/
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