Wow, DirectX 9 support for playing games in XP and Vista. There is a beta. Impressive. This is the VM I chose.
I’m working on setting up the “docking station” for the MacBook. Setting up a battery backup on the laptop, monitor, and peripherals. And setting up the external DVD burner and large external hard drive.
The Mac makes me nervous about system stability. I built all the Windows machines and have a variety of hardware and operating systems for them. The Mac is unique and a laptop. Very little room for upgrades there. So, after the external hard drive, 200 gig, was installed I looked for backup software. It really surprised me that Backup is not built in. Though awful it is a feature of Windows back to Win95.
However, I did find great instructions on getting rsyncx for free and setting up part of the external drive as a complete copy of the laptop drive. The remaining 110 gig will be data.
As I type, a complete copy of the Macintosh HD is going to the OS X partition. This is the first time I’ve seen the Mac stressed. It stuttered a bit on Pandora and I filled the keyboard buffer while typing. This was at the beginning when the source drive was being cataloged. It’s now copying and stutters less often.