'07 Macs & Vista-64

Anyone else annoyed that Apple still hasn't put out any EFI driver updates for mid and late '07 Macs (in my case MacBook Pro) to be able to run Vista-64bit?
I just can't believe it. A simple little driver holds me (and thousands of others) off to run Vista-64bit via BootCamp or Vmware Fusion (the latter one i tried too, didn't work even though Fusion itself supports Vista-64bit).

Sorry. I meant to say GB not MB.
Anyways, I have a MBP. I have Vista 32 running on it. I have 3.2 GB of RAM. It says 4 GB after installing SP1 but you really can only access 3.2 GB. I used to have Vista 64 on my MBP and was able to access all 4 GB of RAM. This is where I get the .8 GB number between the two versions. For the current software I run on Windows, there is no noticeable performance difference. You are only going to see better performance if you run true 64 bit software and that can take advantage of the 4 GB of RAM. Also, 64 bit Vista really shines with 8 GB or RAM, not 4.
Of course down the road 64 bit will be really good to have but not at this moment.

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I have been wanting to do this very ambitious cross-platform home networking/home entertainment setup ever since bootcamp.
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Ok, I will say what I think but don't bet anything on it, because I dont have this setup let alone an xbox 360 I can't say for anything for sure but:
-Macbook with Vista Home Premium/Ultimate (w/ media center)
I've heard of vista working with it but I can't remember for sure if it was with bootcamp specifically or with parallels. I'm pretty sure it was bootcamp though. As for basic compatability with a mac vista works better on a mac then many pcs.
-New Airport Extreme Base Station for wireless w/connected:
This I can see to work with almost 100% certainty
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This I can also see to work very easily
-Printer that can be accessed by both OSX and V/XP
Printer sharing with all of them very likely
-Vizio GV47LF HDTV w/1080p
I don't see a wireless card in this so unless you streaming to the xbox first then to here I dont know how that works. Unless this is direct connect to the computer or to apple tv.
-Xbox 360 Elite w/ wireless adapter
This part is sketchy at best but may be possible, it does have wireless card so possibly.
Anyway thats what I think but as I said can't say for sure. Hope its somewhat helpful.

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I left off the \\ that is before the 192.168.2.2 and it worked just fine for me. But I am using Vista Ultimate and this may or may not make a difference. Ultimate is suppose to have easier Networking set - up
I map the drive using \\192.168.2.2\kemery and am
then prompted for a user name and password so enter
my MAC short name and password (administrator). The
log on fails and returns "unsucessful" with the user
name filled in as
KeithEmery-PC\kemery.

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Printing From iBook To Printer on Windows Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printer on a Vista machine from a Mac, although Windows notebooks find it immediately.
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Printing From iBook To Printer on Windows Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printer on a Vista machine from a Mac, although Windows notebooks find it immediately.
I have previously always had success sharing printers on Windows XP machines with my iBooks. . However upon installing Vista RC1 on my desktop I find I can no longer find the printer in the Mac's printer setup utility. When I dual boot back to XP everything works fine, but on the same machine when I boot into Vista I am unble to see the printers. The Mac printer setup utility finds the Vista machine on the network, but the printers are never visible. Is their some secret or channge in Vista that prevents Mac's running , in my case,Tiger 10.4.8 from seeing a shared printer on a computer running Vista
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I have iTunes running on an iMac and a Windows Vista machine. All my songs are stored on the iMac. I have a home network using Airport Express. I want to know how can I access my music from my Vista PC. I thought I set it up correctly, and the Vista machine can see the songs on the iMac, but when I try to play a song, I get the account and password box that I get when I purchase a song. I enter the information and it tells me the computer has been authroized, but the song still does not play, and the account and password box keeps appearing. Help.

I'm not sure this will help, but it's worth a try. Vista has a lot of built in security (as I'm sure you've discovered)! Make sure you've given iTunes "full permission" in all categories. I had tremendous problems with sharing a library between my XP and my Vista machine until I relaxed all security settings on the Vista machine.
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On Edit: I also had to do the following to get my Vista computer to share properly with my XP computer:
I changed a setting in "My Network and Sharing Center". On the taskbar in the lower right corner, click on your internet icon. Then select "Network and Sharing Center" at the bottom of the menu box that opens. Scroll down to "Sharing and Discovery" and make sure "File Sharing" is on and "Media Sharing" is on. Save and close. (I actually had to reboot to get the change to take effect.)
P.S.--I don't know how my windows XP to Vista advice translates to a Mac/Vista situation, so I apologize if this isn't relevant!
I hope this helps somewhat!
P.S.S.--Some of the advice given above is quite drastic and truly defeats the whole purpose of Vista's better built-in security. I'm not trying to be a jerk--but my solution (which works on my system) is a much safer alternative!
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I have a new MacBook Pro with Vista loaded in Bootcamp. The problem is when I use WEP settings in AirPort Extreme the Vista network will not connect. Vista sees the AirPort but when I enter the WEP info it does not connect to the internet. The MAC side works fine with WEP and Vista works fine with cable to AirPort but not wireless. Vista works fine when WEP is turned off - any clue whats going on here?

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It may not have been considered a "Major Release," But when the it's the only OS that the machines you are currently building will run, it's pretty freakin' major!
(I'm not sure if Apple's latest machines will still run 10.5, or not, but from following this thread, I'm guessing not?)
It is the standard at Apple... the latest build of the current OS is what goes on the new machines, and the Motherboards, Chipsets, & BIOS (not the right term for it with Mac, I know) are "hard written" to accept that OS as the absolute minimum, and nothing older (or lower as some call it).
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Conversely, just as Snow Leopard won't run on a PPC powered Mac, Vista and 7 may install, or appear to, on a single core, older PC, but the first time you install and try to open anything other than the OS itself, you're in for a world of problems.
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Hello,
I sucessfully set up a MAC/VISTA network and used it for the past days. I connected through CMD+K smb//:<my_ip>
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Has anyones computer crashed after update???
heres wat happen to me!
First i got errors -48. Called Apple had to create new user account to on my computer to work around it. then logged back in to my user account and got error -50 that said unable to sync!
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Whats going on!!!

Well the first thing I thought of was device driver problems, and there is a lot of that being reported here, although I've never seen it reported on a MAC system. I would still say though that it has something to do with your system setup, exactly what unknown, you'd have to troubleshoot that yourself, sorry, but it could be lots of things and you would know your system better than anyone else. I can tell you one thing though, I use my iPhone on my MAC, Vista 32b, and XP PRO with no problems at all. So it's got to be something inherent in your system. USB ports can be flakey on MAC's as well as windows systems, so the first thing I would do is unplug all existing USB devices, accept keyboard/mouse, and try to proceed from there.
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'07 Macs & Vista-64

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