Partly wrong there. It's how Solaris handles modification of the disk partitions. This has been fixed in ON 70. I use Vista x64 and OpenSolaris with ON 75 without issue. It's completely transparent. Regular Solaris however doesn't like bootmgr. The hacks are to make duplicates of the current mbrs of each system, use bootmgr to boot Solaris. I don't see any misalignment, if there is it's due to the ability to shrink/grow NTFS without 3rd party programs in Vista.
Core Duo is not 64-bit, Core 2 Duo is 64-bit. I have a 3rd rev MacBook Pro with Santa Rosa Core 2, and it runs other operating systems in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode, of course dependent on drivers, which are all available, since it uses a NVIDIA Geforce 8600 GT, and Intel 865 chipset. (These are like others 1440x900, but they use LED backlighting instead of mercury cathodes, brighter, less failures) You're hard pressed to find any notebook with 1680x1050 which is not 17". I believe the ASUS C90 would be a better fit, and it's Core 2 also. AMD Turion's have less power management features, and their mobile line is gimped compared to their desktop/server processors. I have an Ultra-20 M2 with Opteron 1218, and it's nice, but I've had bad experience with AMD notebooks over the years and refuse to buy them because they generally omit more heat, are slower, and not cheaper than Intel ones. AMD since the get-go of 64-bit computing hasn't focused on mobiles, this is why Apple didn't even consider them (Plus they can't handle the demand), they basically try fitting a square object in a round hole to retrofit AMD's in notebooks. Intel has a much large company and more money to make it work right. James On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Neal Pollack wrote: > Mike DeMarco wrote: >> ... >> >> One more Question: Are the core Duo's Full 64bit and able to run >> dual boot Solaris and Windows XP pro? >> > > Yes. On multiple brand of Core2Duo laptops, we are dual and > tripple booting > Solaris, Vista, Win XP, Linux. > > (Vista has it's own specially engineered annoyances as a futile > attempt > to keep people from adding extra OS types to the hardware. But alas, > M$ failed at that also. It's a little extra work, but you can > "adjust" the > vista partition to play nice with Solaris and Linux. There are blogs > about it, or others on this list will share how M$ tried to mis-align > vista partitions so that every third party partition program on the > market > would fail, complaining about overlapping partitions. But again, that > can be dealt with.) > > Neal > >> Thanks for everyones input >> <mike> >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
