Off Topic: Vista on Mac

I’ve been quite busy the last week, since I’ve changed employment. I now work with a small consulting firm where I might get the opportunity  to develop my own ideas in the future.

With this new employment I’ve got an IPhone and new new computer, which I decided to be a MacBook! People who knows me are wondering if I lost my mind, because I’ve always ranted about Mac. Well, I have not loosed  my mind, of course I’ve installed Windows on the computer. Now I have a dual-boot computer so that I can develop IPhone apps, and maybe an IPhone app for Invitational Tour!

I installed Windows Vista 64bit so that I can use all the 4GB of memory installed in the MacBook. It all worked fine at first, but my computer started to freeze more often than I have the patience for. And with freeze I mean a total freeze, no messages or log items, the only way around it is to do a hard reset of the computer. (Hold down the power button for a couple of seconds.)

I have experienced this with my desktop PC a few times, but not so many times that it really bugged me. But with the MacBook it wouldn't last more than 30 minutes before it froze. I started to suspect that something was wrong with the hardware, but then I noticed that the computer froze when I browsed the Internet. So I googled for this problem on my other PC, and it turns out that there are a lot of people having this problem. After I read a lot of blog posts and forum posts, I did not get a hands on solution to the problem, some stated that there was a problem with the video drivers, some had problems with the touch pad and some had other driver problems. A few mentioned the wireless network driver. So after a couple of hours searching for a solution, I got tired of browsing the internet and disabled the wireless network connection and hooked a cable between my router and the computer. That seemed to help, my MacBook has not frozen for in the last 24 hours!

This works fine while I’m at my home office, I dread for the moment when I have to be mobile with my computer, but that is a problem to be solved then.