Ok.. I haven’t been following up much with the crowd on Windows 7 stuff.

But listening to Scott talking about Windows 7 made me give a shot at it. Yes, even after he called himself a Schill, i wanted to try

Having the VMWare Fusion installed made it much simpler to try this out. After downloading the RC 7 (build 7100) tried to make a new VM with it.

For some reason, the Fusion thought i am installing Vista 64 bit and not Windows 7. But i am sure they’ll catch up with that soon!

Before installing Fusion, i had a bootcamp partition with XP on it.  Even though i am happy with Fusion, i still wanted to keep the Bootcamp partition. Well, the only itching point was i had to reboot the machine everytime i wanted to run Visual Studio. But i am OK with that. Somehow i thought , that way, XP has all the resources and processor power just for XP. So thats why even XP feels sooo much better on MacBook Pro!

Then i came across, Jeff Atwood’s blog entry on Virtual Machine – The Single Most Important Virtual Machine Performance Tip. He’s so right! But its a shame i cant fix another hard disk in MBP, or i dont know yet. So i’ll stick with bootcamp for now!

Another thing i missed when i am bootcamped is my iTunes collection. But Fusion lets you share whenever you create your VM with it. Now i am happy listening iTunes from Windows 7. Will share more experiences soon..

Here’s my current settings with Vista x64..errr.. Windows 7

When the macbook air came out, i loved apple for the fact that they foresee (or made?) end of DVD drives.

I only chose macbook pro for the processor power and better graphics performance.

Last night when i tried to see one small video (2 mins length) which was stored in DVD, i almost screamed with my MacBookPro!
The file was compressed with .mkv and i had my favorite VLC player installed.
But when i tried to play from DVD, the poor thing kept spindling the dvd and nothing was happening.
Couldn’t torture the MBP more than few seconds and ejected the dvd and got on with my other stuff..

well, the interesting thing was when i was going through the console for something else, this caught by eye..

org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--enable-release' '--disable-debug' '--with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc: Key authenticated
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000001] main libvlc: Status file authenticated
org.videolan.vlc[4109]  m_el[mi_level] == NULL
org.videolan.vlc[4109]  arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000440] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
org.videolan.vlc[4109] No accelerated IMDCT transform found
org.videolan.vlc[4109] [00000407] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

Really?? MBP with 4GB RAM is too slow for playing a video from a DVD?

Damn! I dont know who to hate, VLC? or DVD drive?

ofcourse, its the DVD (or me for sticking with those discs still)
I think its time i should get one of those 2TB hard drives and get all those DVDs copied (maybe i’ll use some Windows PC)

After all, i dont think i am alone feeling like this