14 DAY TRIAL // Mac computers are chocking on Windows Vista. Literally! And despite the fact that Apple finds Windows Vista hard to swallow and even harder to digest, the Cupertino based company is delivering advice for Mac users on how to install Vista.
In all fairness, Apple is actually helping Mac users trouble soot some issues generated in a scenario where the latest operating system from Microsoft is installed on a non-startup disk in a Mac Pro via Boot Camp beta 1.2.
Apple is advising Mac Pro users to "use the Boot Camp Beta 1.2 Assistant to create a Windows partition on the secondary drive (while started from the drive that Mac OS X is installed on). Start the Windows Vista installation process. Installation will terminate at some point. When this happens, turn your Mac off. Physically disconnect the internal drive that is the Mac OS X startup drive. Turn your computer on. Continue with the Windows Vista installation. After Windows installation is complete, turn off the computer and reconnect the Mac OS X drive."
Boot Camp is a solution delivered by Apple designed to enable the deployment of Windows Vista on Intel-based Mac computers. Boot Camp is currently in Beta 1.2 stage and is limited to support only 32-bit editions of Vista.
"Once you've completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key (that's the "alt" key for you longtime Windows users) at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. After starting up, your Mac runs Windows natively just like a PC. Simply restart to come back to Mac," reads a fragment of Apple's description of Boot Camp.