Windows Vista Beta 2 build 5456 on MacBook Pro

[FragTek]

Just wanted to let everyone know I was able to successfully install Vista 5456 on my MacBook Pro this evening I will post up some screenshots shortly but after doing some basic reviewing of Vista I must say that it looks absolute pwnage. I used to diss Vista pretty hard but I think MS is defintely on to something with this new build. Everything so far seems to be pretty stable.

Pix are here...

 

[Dav0s]

w00t, i would install but im worried about drivers tbh

 

[Ham]

Lol, good job. Waiting for results.

PS. Im loving the beer bottles next to the MBP.

 

[FragTek]

Thread updated with pix!

 

[FarFarAway]

Very nice mate.

I may have to slip this on a spare HDD

 

[Raging]

nice:yumyum:

think i will stick with xp for a while yet,dont fancy all the bother with drivers

cheers.

 

[FarFarAway]

Frag whats the cpu usage like in general windows use and idle?

 

[mrapoc]

also how does it handle drivers and oldish games?

 

[FragTek]

Frag whats the cpu usage like in general windows use and idle?

While examining the CPU usage meter during idle I watched it go from 0% to 8% randomly. Never saw it go above 8% during idle. During standard Windows use it would top out at about 20% from what I saw, but I never studied it so this could be way off.

@mraproc: I didn't install any games but the drivers that I did install supplied by Apple for use with BootCamp installed ok.

Overall during my short test drive it seemed to be quite stable and glitch free.

 

[FarFarAway]

That CPU use sounds pretty good

 

[Raven]

hhmm where did i put the license code for vista aahh in the mail

looks like i will try vista next week, anything to look out for compared to xp ?