First of all: I got a macbook! It is also my first laptop. ( I'm poor. I know. ) So I got a mac. Now to install Windows! There's my problem. I want Windows so I can work on my games on both platforms but I have only heard of BootCamp to do this. I hope it won't take up too much space. Anyway, I can't seem to find the download link. That is one thing I don't like sbout Apple's site sometimes is that there is not a link to the product you want. If anyone can point me to the correct direction, that would be great! If it helps any, I'm using a Mac OS X version 10.5.5

Have you read the Boot Camp Installation and Setup Guide (PDF)? It should guide you through the process. Boot Camp Assistant should already be installed on your Macbook (hit Cmd+Space and start typing "boot camp assistant"; if that doesn't find it, look in Applications/Utilities). Once you've installed Windows, you'll just need the Mac OS X disc to install the extra drivers.

Wow that simple huh? That's awesome, thanks!

Quote: Original post by PCN
Wow that simple huh? That's awesome, thanks!

Yeah that's the way Apple likes to do it so simple i.e. one button mouse, just drag app to trashcan to uninstall,etc that it causes a brainfart after using way more complicated systems like Windows,etc... [lol]

Quote: Original post by PCN
First of all: I got a macbook! It is also my first laptop. ( I'm poor. I know. )
So I got a mac. Now to install Windows!

So let me get this straight: you've bought a laptop that is twice the price of an equivalent windows machine and you claim you're poor?

And then you want to put windows on it!?

[grin]

there are different forms of poor, not just "not much money" :)

good luck with the one-mouse-button thing in the windows world.

New Macs support right-click functionality on the touchpad. However, the Windows drivers for the trackpad are truly horrible. I recommend you just plug in a USB mouse.

Quote: Original post by d000hg
New Macs support right-click functionality on the touchpad. However, the Windows drivers for the trackpad are truly horrible. I recommend you just plug in a USB mouse.

I've had problems with scrolling, but after I set the scroll speed to as low as possible, it seemed to work alright. Definitely not the nice and smooth movement of the OS X side of things, but at least serviceable.

Quote: Original post by davepermen
good luck with the one-mouse-button thing in the windows world.

You guys do realize that Apple has abandoned the one button mouse quite a while ago ? Apples Mighty Mouse is a two button mouse (although the thing is ergonomically unusable for other reasons, except maybe for the scroll 'wheel'). OSX recognizes right clicks just as any other OS does. You can plug in a standard 3 (4, 5, whatever) button USB mouse into your Mac, and use that instead. And of course it will also work under Windows.

i was talking about the touchpad. i never use mice at notebooks.

and that twobutton mouse from apple is crap, yes. but the os can react on rightclicks, that's true. just the mousepad doesn't deliver it right now to windows, making the macbook less portable compared to normal notebooks (you don't always want to use a mouse if you just open it in your hand to show some date, or some piece of code, or what ever, one handed. and yes, i happen to do that quite often with my notebook).