PC & iMac - the best of both worlds

[Guest Will]

A week ago while my HP PC with MCE2004 was being repaired I tried out a 24"

iMac along with USB attach MyTV.PVR for 1 week finding that only CanoScan

3000 would not work due to PC only software CD. Printer HP D4100 had install

for both OS's on CD.

 

The Bootcamp limit of 1 CD/DVD (also 2GB+ of physical memory) for PC OS

install would not allow MCE2004 8 not SP2 CDs from HP though I have 1 DVD

from HP setup/restore app. which does repair or reinstallation on PC. Also

$299.99 waste of money Vista Ultimate (Upgrade?) single 32 or 64 bit DVDs.

 

I have not heard that there is a "Bootcamp for PC" enabling Tiger now,

Leopard when it is available on HP or other provider PC. Am wondering if I

could install PC OS with Bootcamp onto an iMac then use/run anything

seamlessly?! that works only on PC and thus have use of both OS's in 1 place

or the best of both worlds in other words. If Apple gets this working on

iMac, I expect PC sales would be taking a loss in market share.

[Guest Malke]

Re: PC & iMac - the best of both worlds

 

Will wrote:

> A week ago while my HP PC with MCE2004 was being repaired I tried out a 24"

> iMac along with USB attach MyTV.PVR for 1 week finding that only CanoScan

> 3000 would not work due to PC only software CD. Printer HP D4100 had install

> for both OS's on CD.

>

> The Bootcamp limit of 1 CD/DVD (also 2GB+ of physical memory) for PC OS

> install would not allow MCE2004 8 not SP2 CDs from HP though I have 1 DVD

> from HP setup/restore app. which does repair or reinstallation on PC. Also

> $299.99 waste of money Vista Ultimate (Upgrade?) single 32 or 64 bit DVDs.

>

> I have not heard that there is a "Bootcamp for PC" enabling Tiger now,

> Leopard when it is available on HP or other provider PC. Am wondering if I

> could install PC OS with Bootcamp onto an iMac then use/run anything

> seamlessly?! that works only on PC and thus have use of both OS's in 1 place

> or the best of both worlds in other words. If Apple gets this working on

> iMac, I expect PC sales would be taking a loss in market share.

 

I read this post twice and still am not sure what you are asking. Boot

Camp works very well under Tiger. You need a full retail copy of XP, not

recovery disks (which are apparently what you have). For further

questions about Boot Camp, go to Apple's website and read the Boot Camp

FAQs.

 

 

Malke

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