Thursday, April 19, 2007
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My primary machine at home is a MacBook Pro.  Overall I really like it as my primary machine.  When I first got my MBP I used it almost exclusively to run Windows XP via BootCamp.  It wasn't until I tried using a beta of Parallels that promised BootCamp support that I ended up switching to Parallels and the wonder that is Coherence mode.  Over the last couple of months I've been doing mostly writing and/or work in TextMate so I've used XP via Parallels very little.  Lately I've had a couple of things come up that have me back in XP with VS.NET and some non book sample sized projects.  I'm finding it quite painful.  Most of my usual keyboard shortcuts don't work (althought I can get some to work by using the fn key), things seem painfully slow lately, and I'm not a happy camper.  I'm trying to figure out if I need to reconfigure my Parallels image, or if its time to switch back to BootCamp.

Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:27:49 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Hey Steve,

I'm in the same boat with you as I got a Macbook Pro with the intention of doing "fun" mac stuff on it. Ended up using it as a primary Windows dev machine. I started with Bootcamp and stuck with it. One recent development is a new version of bootcamp has MUCH better support for things like right-clicking, windows keys, scrolling with the trackpad, etc. I was thrilled to find that and install it. 2) I found out you can install MacDrive software on your XP partition to gain access to your mac partition for file sharing, or in my case, additional space as I've outgrown the Windows partition, but don't want to forcibly downsize the mac partition.
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