I finally made the switch myself and just bought a MacBook Pro 17". I've been using a Fujitsu LifeBook N6010 for the last year and a half. I just installed BootCamp and had a flawless installation process for Windows XP. They really do require that you install BootCamp with XP SP2. My MacBook has a 160 Gig drive, so I gave Windows 40 Gigs and formatted in NTFS. Haven't had problems as of yet.
My new problem now, is that I have a 250 Gig LaCie external drive. And, as you may not know, NTFS can only be read from OSX and not written on. So I basically ran PM on my Fujitsu N6010 and created 2 partitions with a 50/50 split, and formatted them both to FAT32. I know that there are certain restrictions when using FAT32, like the 4 gig file limit and file limit names. But I figure that since I have 40 gigs for my Windows partition in my Mac, I won't run into many problems in the future. I debated on partitioning my external into 3 different drives. MacHS/FAT32/NTFS, but IMHO, thats simply just asking for trouble you probably don't need.
From sources I found on the web, Apple has decided to delay the release of the new OSX untill October, because they still haven't fully intergrated Vista into BootCamp. So Vista is a gamble if you decide to try and install it....
As for my switch, I can honestly say that it's kind of a new fresh start. I still have a lot to learn, but as long as I still got Windows somewhere, I'll always be able to get a breath of fresh air!! :)
I finally made the switch myself and just bought a MacBook Pro 17". I've been using a Fujitsu LifeBook N6010 for the last year and a half. I just installed BootCamp and had a flawless installation process for Windows XP. They really do require that you install BootCamp with XP SP2. My MacBook has a 160 Gig drive, so I gave Windows 40 Gigs and formatted in NTFS. Haven't had problems as of yet.
My new problem now, is that I have a 250 Gig LaCie external drive. And, as you may not know, NTFS can only be read from OSX and not written on. So I basically ran PM on my Fujitsu N6010 and created 2 partitions with a 50/50 split, and formatted them both to FAT32. I know that there are certain restrictions when using FAT32, like the 4 gig file limit and file limit names. But I figure that since I have 40 gigs for my Windows partition in my Mac, I won't run into many problems in the future. I debated on partitioning my external into 3 different drives. MacHS/FAT32/NTFS, but IMHO, thats simply just asking for trouble you probably don't need.
From sources I found on the web, Apple has decided to delay the release of the new OSX untill October, because they still haven't fully intergrated Vista into BootCamp. So Vista is a gamble if you decide to try and install it....
As for my switch, I can honestly say that it's kind of a new fresh start. I still have a lot to learn, but as long as I still got Windows somewhere, I'll always be able to get a breath of fresh air!! :)