Wednesday April 19, 2006

How is iMac and Windows on iMac - (Apple + Intel) After playing with Apple's new iMac, my observation is that the desktop is cool and fast compared to Apple's PowerMac. The GlassFish/Sun Java System Application Server worked great without any problems!

iMac need more time for reliability?

During my usage, I found some glitches with the OS/applications i) While rebooting, OS gone infinite loop with "Process Table Full" message on the console. I had to do the hard stop (power off) ii) In another instance, Mail application is not able to close normally. These issues, I never observed with PowerMac.

Windows installation on iMac?
There are some restrictions on windows OS with bootcamp installation on iMac, which allows to install Windows-XP with SP2 from single disc.

See the detailed instructions at bootcamp . Download the guide and things just worked fine except the following one odd thing!

Initially struggled with a volume licensed win-xp CD, which has 3 sub versions, like professional, home edition, tablet PC edition. The CD recognition is ok and displayed A. B. C. and asked to select one of the operating systems. But keyboard and mouse are not recognized!

Finally, used a single CD with single windows-xp SP2 software, then everything went fine as it is loading the minimum drivers automatically and stops at partitioning of the disks.

Enjoy!
Posted by Jagadesh Babu Munta ( Apr 19 2006, 05:24:20 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]