Has anyone tried the Windows 8 Beta Customer Preview on the 2012 MacBook Air? How is it? Is it full of bugs? Do you need to install any missing drivers? I have the 128gb SSD and am wondering how much space should I give it. I plan to use Windows for gaming purposes but I have no idea how to get Windows on my Mac as I'm new to Mac. Can anyone help me out with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Windows 8 on 2012 MacBook Air
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Well the only game i use windows for is swtor and it works fine. Load times are pretty fast. I am sure if the game was installed directly onto the HD it would be faster, but i dont have to wait more than 10 to 20 seconds for the game to load. I run the game using medium settings and it runs smooth. I have been very impressed with my 2012 macbook air. I run Diablo 3 on osx off the SSD and its lighting fast and i run that game using high/medium settings. Looks beautiful, runs great.
Other than slower loading, nothing will be affected. Perhaps slowdowns in large open games as new cells are loaded.
I downloaded/ran windows 8 pre release build the other day via Parallels. It worked flawlessly. No lag/bugs that I could see off the bat. I haven't tried any games through it, but i am sure they would work just fine as long as the HD4000 could handle them!
Works great here, except for the same problems that plague the Win 7 installs, IE lack of turbo boost on i7. Other than that it is great.