| Although running a Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp enables you to run most of the Windows applications you'll want to use, there are some differences between running Windows on a Mac and on a PC designed for Windows. These differences include the following: - Some Mac hardware won't work under Windows Even though a lot of the hardware you use with your Mac while running Mac OS X will work when you are running Windows (you might need to install drivers under Windows as you'll learn in Chapter 5, "Running Windows on a Mac Using Boot Camp"), some of it won't. There are several known examples of this, including Apple Remote Controls, Apple Bluetooth keyboards, and so on.
Note Interestingly, Windows does recognize a built-in iSight camera as a device. You will only be able to use it after you've installed the drivers on the CD you created. If your Mac has one of these, you'll see it in the My Computer window; open to use it. - Some Windows hardware won't work under Windows on the Mac Because Mac hardware is different than the standard Windows PC, some hardware devices won't work on the Mac even if you are running the required version of Windows. If there is specific hardware you want, you should contact the manufacturer to see whether there are any issues related to using that hardware with a Mac running Windows. (The manufacturer might not be able to tell you, but it's probably worth a shot.) If you can't find any specific information about this, you can always try it with the risk that you might have to return the device if you can't get it to work. The most likely hardware to be incompatible are advanced audio or video devices. (Of course, the Mac's audio and video software is so good. I don't know why you'd want to use Windows for audio or video tasks anyway.)
- Some Windows software might not work under Windows on a Mac Windows software that interacts with specific hardware elements might not work under Windows on a Mac. The most likely culprits here are high-end games that are often tweaked to work with very specific Windows video cards.
- Windows command keys are different than Mac command keys Windows has a different set of command keys than does the Mac.
The Mac's Option key is roughly the same as the Windows Alt key. For example, you can activate most Windows menu commands by pressing the Alt key and then the first letter of the menu name. The menu will open and you can press the activation key which is underlined in the command's name (usually the first letter of a command's name) to select it. This works for Windows on a Mac, but you press the Option key which is also labeled as the Alt key.
The Mac's  key is analogous to the Windows key on a PC. When you press it, the Start menu will open when you are viewing the Windows desktop and you can use the Arrow and Return key to make selections.
The Mac's Ctrl key mostly maps to the Windows Ctrl key. However, the Windows Ctrl key is analogous to the Mac's key. For example, to save a document in an application under Windows, you'd press Ctrl+S instead of +S as you do under Mac OS X.
- Some Mac keys won't work under Windows Some keys on a Mac's keyboard won't function under Windows. These include Volume, Brightness, Eject, and other specialized keys.
- Ctrl+click doesn't open contextual menus Under both operating systems, it's important to be able "right click" on objects to open their contextual menus. If you use a two-button mouse, this is easy. If you use a one-button mouse or a MacBook or MacBook Pro with only the trackpad, you won't be able to right-click on something using the Mac's Ctrl+click option because it doesn't work under Windows. Instead, use Shift+F10. (You can also try the right key on Apple keyboards to open a contextual menu; this doesn't always work.)
- Some Windows configuration settings don't work As you learned earlier, some Windows configuration settings don't work when you run Windows on a Mac. These can include energy settings, screen savers, and so on.
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