Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Impressive Mac Windows Compatibility Scenario

My IBM Thinkpad T42 doesn't have a DVD burner. This is particularly bad since I need to get a copy of the Windows Vista February CTP burned and installed somewhere, I finally have the itch now that Vista is feature complete to start checking this out for myself. In the office, there is like one shared DVD burner that no one seems to know where it is, anyway its a hassle to track it down. I am working from home today and I think I have a DVD burner in the iMac, can I copy the .iso over and burn a DVD. This ended up presenting no problem. I copied the 2.4 GB file over my wireless network using Windows File Sharing from the T42 to the Mac. I then dragged the .iso to Roxio Toast 6 Titanium to burn the DVD. This is impressive to me because I copied such a large file over wireless between platforms with no errors and the DVD burned without any problems. Vista is installing in Virtual PC on the Mac right now...