Comments on: Windows 2008 Server on my MacBook Pro

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:03:33 +0000

Guys just a quick question. I am planning to buy macbook pro although I have been a PC guy all my life. Am into development (little bit of web too) using visual studio and sql server. My question is, have you guys faced any issue with respect to development using windows in macbook pro machine? Thanks for the reply.
Andy

By: ekl

ekl — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:51:22 +0000

Running Server 2008 for some time now. Finally something like an alternative to XP.

@Simone: Actually you can move widgets to the normal desktop simply by grabbing it with the mouse, and hiding dashboard again. Widget will then always be visible.

By: Simone

Simone — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:08:30 +0000

The most annoying thing of the dashboard is that you have to activate it in order to see a widget, so cannot be used to receive notifications as Vista Sidebar

By: steve

steve — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:46:30 +0000

"although I've never got into them myself.": Yeah, compared to Dashboard, Vista's gadget sidebar is clunky and frustrating to use.

By: Simone

Simone — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:29:01 +0000

I think I'm going to do the same thing on my MacBook (without Pro) and see it Win2008 with everything one runs more smoothly than Vista

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:04:47 +0000

That guide has Vista widgets running at http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/installing-custom-gadgets/ although I've never got into them myself.

[)amien

By: Simone

Simone — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:20:36 +0000

As you know, is it possible to run "Vista" Sidebar gadgets on Win2008 Server?

By: steve

steve — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:45:21 +0000

Interesting - I have the 32-bit version of Vista on my MBP and that gave me little trouble, except that now it generally gathers dust; I should install SP1 sometime but I can rarely be arsed to boot it up, OS X has become warm and comfy now.

I still can't understand why anyone would want to install a 64-bit OS on a regular desktop machine though, unless they need to run monster databases in-memory or big workstation apps like AutoCAD or XSI. It just chews more memory for simple tasks (since all the pointers are twice as wide), and don't get me started on drivers. Have you really ever run out of a 2GB address space in a single desktop app (since Windows doesn't let you get at the full 4GB)? I know I haven't on anything but a production server. I guess I can sort of understand it if you need to test in that environment for parity with live deployment, but I'd rather have a dev server performing that duty than weighing down my desktop.

By: Adrian Ritchie

Adrian Ritchie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:09:10 +0000

Excellent! I've been waiting since the VS2008 launch party for you to post this :)

I've got a few spare hours this evening so I'm going to give this a go on my MBP as the Vista install is a little on the shafted side.