How good is wireless networking under Win XP & BootCamp?
Hello,
I'm heading off to business school in the fall and I need to run Windows XP (some of the Excel plugins for intro finance classes wont work in Mac Excel and there are some Windows specific programs we will be using). I just bought a Dell Laptop and am going to return it, as it came with a defective hardware driver - I believe its for the bluetooth, but the moronic tech support based in India can't solve the problem. I'm tired of all the blue screen crashes!
I'm thinking of buying a MacBook Pro and running XP under BootCamp. That way I'll get to use OS X and iLife also. How well does wireless networking work in XP? Any known coonectivity issues/problems? This is very important for me; my school's entire building has a 802.11b wireless setup and I have to be able to connect under Win XP.
On a more general note, reading these forums there seems to be a lot of problems with the MacBook Pro, i.e., heating issues being the most major. I don't know how serious these issues are. Should I go ahead and buy now or hold off on my purchase for a couple months and wait for these issues to be resolved?
Any relevant advice would be appreciated. thanks.
It's a good computer. Wireless works like a charm both in XP and OSX. There doesn't seem to be a WEP key index setting in OSX though.
There are obviously a lot of unacceptable quality flaws with the current MBPs. The only problems I've had are the notorious hi-frequency whine and a keyboard with tipping keys which is going in for repair.
If you get one without any flaws, in my opinion, the only question mark in deciding to get one or not is if you can live with starting up and closing photobooth on every OSX-boot to get rid of the whine as it doesn't seem to be fixed in the near future. If you can - get one.
Good luck.
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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