[Offtopic] Dual booting Macs

[Dianne Ruffles]

Thanks Glen and Jim for your feedback. We have mostly been a PC school up to
now so we are looking at possibly utilising Windows Xp and Mac O/S on the
dual booting Macs but we are tossing up as to whether we should not attempt
the dual platform and install Mac O/S only. 

 

Cheers

Di.

 

Dianne Ruffles

Director of Information Services

Melbourne High School

Forrest Hill, South Yarra.

VIC 3141

 

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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jim Maunder
Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:34 AM
To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Dual booting Macs

 

At 10:51 AM 15/05/2008, you wrote:




 
Hi All, 

 

... we are considering replacing these
with a trolley

 

of dual-booting Macbooks.

 

.....
 
Please let me know your experiences with the
dual booting Macbooks or any 

 

schools you may know who are using dual
booting Macs with students.


I look after about 500 student and 100 staff lappies here - and in spite of
a school policy to the contrary some recalcitrant students use MacBooks. 

We have a Novell network etc, and as long as the Macs come to me with Win
XPSP2 on either Bootcamp or Parallels I have little trouble installing what
we need to get them on the network and all that implies. 

My impression is the Bootcamp ones take ages to get to the stage where
Windows starts to load (or to get to the OS choice when you hold down the
Option key), but from then on are ok. My only gripe is the lack of a proper
touch-pad - ie one on which taps works, and has a right-click.

Hope this helps

rgds
Jim






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