

It went from 86MB to 202MB, which is a large leap. But I attribute that to from the 1.0's support of only iMac/Macbook Pro, to now supporting iMac, Macbook Pro 15/17, eiMac, Macbook & Mac Pro (which can have two different kinds of nvidia cards and 1 ATI type), now add the new camera drivers for all, and I think it adds up.
Both ATI & Nvidia have really been bloating their drivers as of late.
AFAIK, Microsoft's license doesn't forbid customers from installing more than one OS and modifying the MBR to accomodate this, however, hardware manufacturers are forbidden from doing this. In-fact, a manufacturer can't even install a boot loader that has Windows as the default and Linux/BSD/whatever as the secondary option. The boot loader has to be the default Windows one, which can only boot Windows. This is why manufacturers had to ship a floppy disk so that both BeOS and Windows could boot on the same computer.
I somehow don't see Apple shipping Windows as an option on their computer if Microsoft enforced this licensing clause against Apple.
Technically, if you want to argue details like that, it's BootCamp that allows you to run them "side by side" - on the same hard drive, same computer. No one said anything about "at the same time".
Parallel/VMWare actually runs one inside/underneath the other. They are not running side by side in this instance as one OS has primary footing and complete control.
CPU virtualization is challenging, but it's nothing new. GPU virtualization is pretty much uncharted territory. Given the fact that CPU architectures are very well documented and understood, while GPU architectures are proprietary moving targets, I wouldn't expect near-native virtualized graphics performance for several years.
I am fairly sure that you have never needed to. I was lead to believe that the stand alone iSight was just a standard firewire camera, and thus would "just work" on pretty much any recent OS that supported firewire cameras.
Now from what I understand that firewire cameras appear differently in the windows subsystem so I don't know if Instant Messanger programs are coded to use it, however any video editing software should be able to pick it up.
Please note that this update seems to disable Bluetooth.
To get it working again in Windows requires a bit of fiddling - details on my blog at http://www.damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/08/16/Apple_releases_BootC...
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