Apple is knows for constant innovation and evloution. Moving from proprietary “in-box” processor to Intel based processors was a great move for Apple. Exploiting the capabilities of Intel processors, Apple has provisioned for using Microsoft Windows Operating System alongside the Mac OSX. Though this may not impress Apple fans, but provides an opportunity to PC users to switch to Apple hardware.
Apple has made this possible through their revolutionary “Boot Camp” application. Boot Camp enables installation of Windows on Intel based Mac Computer using a Microsoft Windows installation CD/DVD. Apple provides full hardware and video support for Windows XP & Windows Vista.
Since it supports Windows Vista, I thought of getting my hands on to Boot Camp to try and get Windows 7 work on Apple machine.
Apple instantly recognized the burned ISO of Windows 7 Beta and installed it like any other version of Windows. There were some issues with the drivers, but I was able to successfully get rid of the problem through the Mac OS X disc that came with the machine. Browse to Drivers folder on the disc and whola… you are done.
There were some issues with sound, which I resolved by downloading the drivers from the manufacturer site.
I haven’t yet tried using the Windows 7 64 Bit on Mac Book, but if the drivers are available, it should work too.
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#1 by DataCabbitKSW on August 13th, 2009
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If you are trying to use 64-bit Vista or Windows 7 64-bit, you will want to get the absolute latest version of BootCamp from Apple’s website. The last time I checked there was a BootCamp 2.1, but it could be higher now. The newer ones had improved drivers for 64-bit. Windows 7 will detect a lot of the commodity hardware in the Apple systems right out of the box and not have any issue. For the advanced proprietary stuff (multitouch trackpads, iSight, etc) you will have to use the BootCamp drivers. Windows 7 can use drivers made for Vista until there are Windows 7 specific drivers. . For those who haven’t tried out Windows 7, you can still get the Release Candidate for free from Microsoft until August 20th: http://tinyurl.com/9agzvs . If you are anxious to get the final version of Windows 7 before the October 22nd release date, you can always sign up for MSDN or TechNet Plus (it was released to them on the 6th, see here: http://tinyurl.com/mpgp4h ).