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XP home or professional? for the mac pro?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Near Boulder, CO
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Ok, one of the reasons I bought my mac pro was because it can run windows, I am going into an engineering degree and I need to run CAD software, I also play Battlefield 2... SO, new egg has the OEM versions of home for $85 and the OEM of pro for $135, is it worth it to buy the pro version?
I plan on buying a 250 or 320 gig drive and partition off 30 or 40 gigs for XP, the rest of the drive would be fat32 or OSX partitioned...
what would you do?
Zach
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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the pro version is necessary in order to take advantage of multiple processors
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I'm looking into running Windows on my Mac Pro too.
Are there any links to helpful instructions out there? Which drivers will I need to install?
Thanks in advance!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York City
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Is the 64 Bit version of Windows required to take advantage of the Xeons?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Near Boulder, CO
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Originally Posted by Oversoul
I'm looking into running Windows on my Mac Pro too.
Are there any links to helpful instructions out there? Which drivers will I need to install?
Thanks in advance!
I believe bootcamp will burn a CD with all the drivers you need...
Zach
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles, California
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There have been problems with SATA access under Windows on the Mac Pro... as in, 30 MB/sec read/writes.
There are instructions to fix that here.
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Linkinus is king.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Home if you want to use 2 cores, Pro if you want to use all 4.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York City
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Someone came up with a fix for the SATA problem...
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