Having a nightmare trying to get it to boot in to mac osx now

Before starting I made sure I’m running from the mains, I have my win7 dvd, and my mac install disk. I also watched a few videos on YouTube and tried to look on the apple support site, but couldn’t see much on apple. (why we live YouTube so much).

Just starting the install of windows 7 on my MacBook. Loaded up bootcamp from within the mac and it asked me how much I want to partition. I have chosen 10gb, but later it did recomend just over 12gb (hope it’s enough). Next I was asked if I want 84xbit or 64bit, I’ve chosen the 64bit. ??? Not sure if correct or what the difference is. I only need to run a few small programs, so sure it will be enough. I can always start again if I need to. Next screen asked me to choose the partition. I chose the bootcamp partition and had to format as NTFS before I could proceed. It wasn’t totaly clear that i had to do this, but i wasnt able to proceed before choosing format. I’m writing this as I go and it seems to be taking ages to “expand the files”. Took a good 2-3 mins before it moved from 0%.

Finally came up complete and had to restart. Only option was run from cd/dvd. (this happened a few times). Very strange it’s taking me through the setup screens again. Had to format the partition again… If this happens again I am not going to bother. I think I need to not press any key and just let it do it’s thing.

Yes that was it. Don’t press the anykey and just allow the system to restart. It will then ask for network settings and time zone, set up a name and password. Then another restart and it will ask you to login and prepare your desktop. Urgh this is taking ages.
Final restart and all done. On the Internet and downloaded and installed firefox. Needed to adjust resolution, but looks ok. Navigation on MacBook is a bit strange. I’m so used to multi touch. Lucky I will not be using it too much.

Maybe the partition should have been a little bigger, as only 938mb free. But enough for me. So looks like this install takes 9gb or just over.

Well I’ve been thinking for a while on getting a new machine. But last week my gf’s 2year old (maybe 3 at a push) gave up. So I’m giving her my old one and looking for a new one myself.

I saw yet another offering coming out from Microsoft. This time no fancy name, just simply windows 7. Or do I change all together and finally take the plunge to getting a new apple mac.

It took me a few hours looking over the 2 main options, but I purly am fed up with windows based macines and the fact that they come with demo after demo of unwanted software that seem impossible to uninstall. For this reason an the fact that video editing on the mac looks so much fun. I decided that this time it will defo be a mac.

So now I have decided Apple Mac, I need to decide if I get laptop style or of I go back to desktop style. Now if the choice was all mine 99% of which it is. I would have gone down the new iMac route. They look fantastic and the new magic mouse if is a lovley bit of kit. However I have decided on the MacBook. The only reason for this is that I don’t have a desk and the gf was not wanting a desk in the living room. So for this reason only. I have decided on the MacBook.

With the MacBook, there is then the choice of pro or non pro. Both have the same processing speed, but after this weeks update the pro has a smaller hdd, but the pro does have: backlit keyboard, sd card slot, wifi. At the moment I’m thinking non pro is £100 less and that is money I can use else where and will also allow me to purchase cables to hook up to the tv in my mancave.

Today I will be coming home with something. If by lunch time the new MacBook is not in store then it will be the pro.