As an fyi for guys running Macs and wanting to use one or more of the windows based programs, I can confirm using Boot Camp and installing Windows 7 works very well.
I used 64GB of space, but you can go pretty low, although I wouldn't recommend much lower than 32GB for the Boot Camp drive. Installation was pretty simple and straight forward, then booting into the Windows screen is nothing more than holding down the "option" key at start up and choosing the Windows drive. Otherwise it boots normally into the Mac OS.
One note, Windows continues to suck, and you have to turn off some annoy UAC thing, completely off in order for it to work properly. But otherwise it took only about 2 hours. The hardware drivers are all located on the Snow Leopard disk, (Boot Camp 3.0 is part of it, and recommended for WIndows 7)
This is a good way to go for guys who want the full desktop option, beyond what is available for the iPhone or iTouch. As well, because you are not emulating its really fast, although I know you can use the emulators like Parallels or VMWare. But this way its a full blown Windows machine and you can add PDAs without the conduits or confusion. I haven't used the new versions of the emulators, I have Parallels but never installed it, but I know from my past experience I wasn't a fan of them. I used Virtual PC in the past and hated it.
If you haven't tried it, its definitely easy and works with most hardware, check the boot camp page for more details. Plus I like it keeps it off my Mac OS, and doesn't take up much space.
Gus at Patagonia was really helpful and got Loadbase up and running now problem, Precision Shooter Workbench is up and running too, but that are moving to the SD card for the PDAs, which I recommend that... I'll have the Nightforce version of Exbal installed shortly, but other than that stupid UAC thing, they have all worked nicely.
I used 64GB of space, but you can go pretty low, although I wouldn't recommend much lower than 32GB for the Boot Camp drive. Installation was pretty simple and straight forward, then booting into the Windows screen is nothing more than holding down the "option" key at start up and choosing the Windows drive. Otherwise it boots normally into the Mac OS.
One note, Windows continues to suck, and you have to turn off some annoy UAC thing, completely off in order for it to work properly. But otherwise it took only about 2 hours. The hardware drivers are all located on the Snow Leopard disk, (Boot Camp 3.0 is part of it, and recommended for WIndows 7)
This is a good way to go for guys who want the full desktop option, beyond what is available for the iPhone or iTouch. As well, because you are not emulating its really fast, although I know you can use the emulators like Parallels or VMWare. But this way its a full blown Windows machine and you can add PDAs without the conduits or confusion. I haven't used the new versions of the emulators, I have Parallels but never installed it, but I know from my past experience I wasn't a fan of them. I used Virtual PC in the past and hated it.
If you haven't tried it, its definitely easy and works with most hardware, check the boot camp page for more details. Plus I like it keeps it off my Mac OS, and doesn't take up much space.
Gus at Patagonia was really helpful and got Loadbase up and running now problem, Precision Shooter Workbench is up and running too, but that are moving to the SD card for the PDAs, which I recommend that... I'll have the Nightforce version of Exbal installed shortly, but other than that stupid UAC thing, they have all worked nicely.
