win7 truth
the last few posts made it sound like installing windows 7 64 bit on a mac pro was a breeze. HA! it was a serious pain in the ass that lasted 5 days. there we two calls to microsoft technical support. apparently it keeps track of how many times you install windows 7. and since i had been shuffling hard drives around it looked like i was installing it on different computers. so i had to get them to send me a new product code. great. when trying to get the 64 bit version to install i blew away both the xp and 32 bit drives. usually by frustration induced stupidity. fortunately i never made the mistake of blowing away the mac drives. i got real snippy with the nice man at the microsoft store when he told me it would take 24 to 48 hours to get a new product code. he really didn't care if i used os x or linux for 2 days waiting for the new product code. and when i did get it all working i found out the windows 7 home premium only uses one of my two cpus. sigh. fuck you very much microsoft.