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| Notes about Windows 7 on a 10.4 Mac with Virtual Box |
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Friday, May 15 2009 @ 08:31 PM EDT Contributed by: Admin
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- Basic info is at ttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/10/installing-windows-7-rc1-on-your-mac-for-free/
- You can use a Mac to download, but you must use Firefox (not Safari) to get it. It will use Firefox as a download manager.
- It downloads pretty quickly. I got it in less than an hour. Depends on your Internet conection, of course, but at least MS has this hosted on a good server.
- Along the way, you'll be given a key (serial number.) Print/save this number right away--the next time you click 'submit' or 'continue' or whatever it will take you to another page.
- Get the 32-bit version
- Good news--it's Windows 7 Ultimate!
- It's a "Release Candidate Customer Preview" so it should be pretty close to what gets released in terms of performance, stability, and features.
- Space needed: it's a 2.36 GB download, 4.96 GB installed into a VirtualBox disk image.
- Very first thing: install the guest additions.
- One down side: it may take some time to start up. On my 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro (which, to be fair, has been on for 44 days and has many apps and a ton of Safari windows open) it can easily take over 5 minutes. Once it's up and running, it's fine, but evidently it takes some time to read and boot from a 5 GB compressed disk image. :-)
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| 10.5's Dock still sucks |
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Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 04:16 PM EDT Contributed by: Admin
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The Dock in 10.5 still sucks, even after the 10.5.2 update that brought back hierarchical folder menus.
Let us recap:
10.0-10.4: you drag a folder into the Dock.
- Its icon appears.
- If you click on it, it will open its Finder window.
- If you right-click on it, you will see its contents in a
menu. This menu is left-justified, like all other easily-readable
text in the known universe, next to a nice, straight, vertical
column of small icons. Holding the mouse over any folder shows that
folder's contents, and if there is a subfolder you can mouse over
that to see its contents, etc. You can activate
any item—program, document, or folder—by clicking on it.
Very nice, neat, and efficient. Useful features, few clicks, mouse
motion is only required if you want to activate items or dig into
subfolders.
10.5.2: you drag a folder to the Dock.
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The icon is from one of the things in the folder.
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If you click on it, you see a fan or stack, depending on how
many things it has.
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If you right-click on it, you get a little menu with options.
Let's look these 3 things in a little more detail.
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