Paul Caldwell
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After having this machine up now for a couple of weeks, I can now safely state that the hand shake between the Mac EFI and XP is not that clean.
My experience is on the XP windows side, I am still a mac Novice.
The two main concerns I have is that on about 1/2 of all start up boots, after XP paints the Main screen, the machine will lock up. You have no keyboard or mouse and the only way to get out is a hard power off. Most of the times after this the machine will come up fine and work in XP with no other issues, (besides excessive heat which only seems to happen when the AC adapter is being used). If you have worked around XP any, you know that this is not a good thing to do with this OS, i.e a hard power off without a orderly shutdown. Eventually a file or two will get stepped on and you will more than likely get a corrupt load. Also as you start to load more programs onto the machine the risk of getting them corrupted will also increase.
The other issue is even more interesting. Every so often on start up, (new boot from a powered off state or a restart both in XP) the machine will start to load into XP, begin to paint the main Windows XP screen (black with Windows XP) and then stop. The LCD goes blank and basically the machine powers off. When this first happened I thought my battery had run down but I checked it and it had plenty of charge. This problem IMO is much worse in that you can't power the machine back up until you take the battery out. I have had this happen with the machine running on battery and on the AC adatper. Note you can't even get the machine to come back up under the mac side until the battery is pulled. Whatever happens pulls the power totally from the board and by pulling the battery you are basically doing a reset.
Net, neither is a good thing and I can see why Apple says don't run production on boot camp. I still may consider parrallels but I keep hearing that you don't get the full potenital of the machine, however I also feel that you would have a more stable environment to work with.
I can also confirm again that the heat issue is mainly a issue of having the AC adatper in use on the XP side. This morning I have had this machine up for over 40 minutes and the heat is very very minor but if I plugged in the AC adatper, that would change quickly.
Maybe Apple reads some of these type of posts, as currently there really isn't much of a way to get them the real feedback they need.
Paul Caldwell
My experience is on the XP windows side, I am still a mac Novice.
The two main concerns I have is that on about 1/2 of all start up boots, after XP paints the Main screen, the machine will lock up. You have no keyboard or mouse and the only way to get out is a hard power off. Most of the times after this the machine will come up fine and work in XP with no other issues, (besides excessive heat which only seems to happen when the AC adapter is being used). If you have worked around XP any, you know that this is not a good thing to do with this OS, i.e a hard power off without a orderly shutdown. Eventually a file or two will get stepped on and you will more than likely get a corrupt load. Also as you start to load more programs onto the machine the risk of getting them corrupted will also increase.
The other issue is even more interesting. Every so often on start up, (new boot from a powered off state or a restart both in XP) the machine will start to load into XP, begin to paint the main Windows XP screen (black with Windows XP) and then stop. The LCD goes blank and basically the machine powers off. When this first happened I thought my battery had run down but I checked it and it had plenty of charge. This problem IMO is much worse in that you can't power the machine back up until you take the battery out. I have had this happen with the machine running on battery and on the AC adatper. Note you can't even get the machine to come back up under the mac side until the battery is pulled. Whatever happens pulls the power totally from the board and by pulling the battery you are basically doing a reset.
Net, neither is a good thing and I can see why Apple says don't run production on boot camp. I still may consider parrallels but I keep hearing that you don't get the full potenital of the machine, however I also feel that you would have a more stable environment to work with.
I can also confirm again that the heat issue is mainly a issue of having the AC adatper in use on the XP side. This morning I have had this machine up for over 40 minutes and the heat is very very minor but if I plugged in the AC adatper, that would change quickly.
Maybe Apple reads some of these type of posts, as currently there really isn't much of a way to get them the real feedback they need.
Paul Caldwell