Now, I must say this: Vista is impressive. The stages are: Copying files, Expanding files, Installing features, Installing updates and Completing installation. Installation occurs over five stages and two reboots. After that, you enter the License Key, agree to Microsoft's Terms and Conditions, choose a security plan for your computer (I just chose "Use Recommended Settings"), and Vista begins installing without fanfare. So, I can safely get rid of Vista using Boot Camp if something goes wrong. Vista seems to be compatible with Boot Camp and I did not need to delete the 200MB Boot Camp partition as I had to do in the case of Beta 2. If you have an existing XP installation, you can choose to upgrade it (if and only if the XP installation was on an NTFS volume), otherwise you can choose to use any NTFS volume to install it on or format a volume as NTFS. The installation was also pretty straightforward. Finally, I was thrown into the blue-and-green world that is Vista, and the installation was all graphical from that point on. Then a new, XP-like 'undeterminable' progress bar that usually comes when Windows is starting up. When I booted from the DVD, there was first a DOS-like screen that required me to press a key to boot from the disc, then there was a DOS-like "Windows is loading files" screen with a DOS-like progress bar in white and grey.
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The Vista installation was somewhat contrasted to the Mac OS X installation in the fact that there were lots of inconsistent "stages" during the process. Compare this to the over 2 hours Beta 2 took to install with its interminable "Finalizing installation" stage.
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The installation took about 45 minutes on the MacBook Pro (1.83GHz Intel Core Duo, 1.5GB RAM) and Vista takes about 40-50 seconds to boot.
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Most things didn't work, it was slow and entirely unusable. The last version of Vista I tried out was Beta 2 on an iMac and it was ridiculous. For the last 24 hours, I have been using Windows Vista RC1 on my MacBook Pro.