Hardware Question

[frezal]

I have a MacBook circa 2007 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core2Duo and an Intel GMA 950. If I were to Bootcamp Windows XP, would it be able to run stock RA2? I know Virtualbox can't and I don't want to waste the harddrive space if Bootcamp can't.

[Naryar]

There's no reason you shouldn't. I have the same (but only at 2 Ghz)

[Sage]

I'm running a Macbook Pro circa 2007 with some sorta specs. Anyways, I went on the mac and downloaded (torrented) the ISO file for windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, burned it to a disc, and used it as the start up OS for Bootcamp. There's more details and stuff involved, but I never use the mac side anymore and put all available HDD space of the windows side.

WIndows XP will work just as well as if it were on a Windows computer.

[Serge]

I have a MacBook circa 2007 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core2Duo and an Intel GMA 950. If I were to Bootcamp Windows XP, would it be able to run stock RA2? I know Virtualbox can't and I don't want to waste the harddrive space if Bootcamp can't.

lol gma950. My MSI Wind has the same graphics card, it ran RA2 just fine.

[frezal]

Bootcamp won't let me partition. It tells me to go into Disk Utility and set my harddrive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). That would be fine and all except for the fact that my harddrive already is. Booting from DVD and repairing/verifying the disk didn't seem to do the trick. Anyone know how to get around this and/or solve the issue?

In the meantime, I'm going to try goggling.

[Serge]

Hm, that's weird. Are you using GPT or MBR?

[frezal]

After some goggling, I think the problem may be that I need to defrag. OS X apparently only auto defrags things smaller than 20 MBs.

[Serge]

HFS+ shouldn't require defragging...

[frezal]

HFS+ shouldn't require defragging...

I have no idea. I'm just going off of what other people have done to solve similar problems.

[Naryar]

Yeah GMA950 isn't the best but hopefully it can be extended to 220MB memory (what i did).

But it works with relatively med-graphics games fine.

[frezal]

I've got 2 GB of RAM (double what this thing came with), so it has plenty to leach from.

[Naryar]

It's a normal macbook right ... how did you managed to pull of that ?

[frezal]

It's a normal macbook right ... how did you managed to pull of that ?

Take off the battery and the RAM compartment is right there.