Posts tagged "Mac Book Pro"

I never thought I'd ever own an Apple computer. Now I do, but still the Apple OS doesn't really cut it for what I have to do for work. Hence, shortly after it's arrival, I went looking for some chicken blood, scented candles and a mysterious black robe: ready to perform the iHeresy and install Windows 7 on the brand new MacBook Pro!

Thanks to Apple, the heretical procedure is quite easy: the Snow Leopard installation disc you get with your Mac contains all Windows drivers you'll need and Mac OSX itself can do the partitioning work for you and setup the EFI bootloader correctly. In most cases the official installation guide will be perfectly fine to install Windows on a Mac PC.

However, if you'd like to setup a triple boot with Mac OSX, Windows and Linux, you'll need a more advanced solution: rEFIt, a toolkit that lets you customize the bootloader and boot from almost everything. Just download the latest package and install it in Mac OSX (it's a simple .dmg package). Refit won't show up as an installed application, but at the next reboot it should already show up instead of the gray Apple logo.

Now you're ready to partition your Apple's hard disk and install any other operating system. To do so, I suggest this great guide (which is slightly outdated, but nonetheless valid and very detailed). Essentially you'll have to follow this three steps...

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In the last months there has been a silent and progressive change in my family. A slow revolution that has overruled every rational economic decision and forced us to buy Apple computers (I refuse to cite the usual “PC vs. Mac” thingie since it's just not true: Macs are overpriced PCs!).

So, after my brother bought a Mac Book Pro when he left for his school, my mother followed with another Apple laptop. Still justifiable, since both of them do computer design and after all every self-respectable designer wouldn't suit for nothing less than a Mac. But then... we inexcusably also bought a 27 inch iMac!

Unpacking our new 27' iMac.

We started using it in the kitchen to watch movies most of all — a rather underutilized piece of hardware until now. Still, the screen is absolutely gorgeous and watching movies on it is a pleasure.

Anyway, I was “keeping it real” and was standing by my PC-only principles... that is, until the finishing blow struck. For the last months I have been working at some new project for the University of Urbino. The professor I'm working with went on a “we got money, we gotta spend it” buying spree (not really, but quite) and bought some new hardware for the lab I work in. One of those machines was indeed a Mac Book Pro 13, which has then been assigned to me. Yuppie.
An offer I couldn't refuse of course.

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