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Vista 64 bit

dimme

dimme

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I have read that Boot Camp supports Vista 64 with the new Power Macs (early 2008). Has anyone tried this and does it work well. I want to go 64 bit and would like full compatibly.
 
I've done it on a MacBook Air, Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, and the first Core 2 Duo MacBooks. All of them works, just needed the drivers from the MacPro disk (or macbook air).
 
wgilles said:
I know it works on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros (early 2008 models)
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It works on the MBP's!? I thought the 64-bit drivers for the MP's were specific to the MP's only. Damnit...guess I'll be reinstalling Vista (this time with x64 bit of course).

The MBP's don't ship with x64 drivers though right? Am I going to have to retrieve a MP install disc? (for those of you reading my sig and wondering, yes I do plan on getting 4 gigs of ram later).
 
Stridder44 said:
It works on the MBP's!? I thought the 64-bit drivers for the MP's were specific to the MP's only. Damnit...guess I'll be reinstalling Vista (this time with x64 bit of course).

The MBP's don't ship with x64 drivers though right? Am I going to have to retrieve a MP install disc? (for those of you reading my sig and wondering, yes I do plan on getting 4 gigs of ram later).
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I thought the x64 drivers are included on the MBP install disks too . . . could be wrong though.
 
Any word on when Parallels might be supporting 64 bit?

Oh - and if the 64 bit drivers aren't on the install disc, can they be installed via a download?

Thanks,
r-gordon-7
 
/BUMP

interested in this too.

I'm surprised Apple hasn't made an easier way for '07 Mac's to run Vista-64. Any suggestions highly apperciated, still.
 
I'd also like to know if its possible to use the MB install disc for my new iMac to get the boot camp drivers.
 
I finally was able to install bootcamp on my new iMac using vista home premium 64-bit. You need to download the macbook pro drivers, install bootcamp, then run the bcvista64 update from apples website. So far everything has worked on my iMac including all keyboard functions, the remote, sound card etc.
 
shoolie said:
I finally was able to install bootcamp on my new iMac using vista home premium 64-bit. You need to download the macbook pro drivers, install bootcamp, then run the bcvista64 update from apples website. So far everything has worked on my iMac including all keyboard functions, the remote, sound card etc.
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As far as i know there should be no problems installing Vista-64 on a new mac if it's this years model. Or are the imacs excluded?

I wish this would work on the '07 models
 
MBX said:
As far as i know there should be no problems installing Vista-64 on a new mac if it's this years model. Or are the imacs excluded?

I wish this would work on the '07 models
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Yes iMacs are excluded even the new '08 models, mine is the brand new 3.06 ghz model.
 
It is likely more a case of Apple not including the Vista 64-bit drivers on the OS X restore discs for non-Pro models then the hardware not actually being able to run it.
 
CWallace said:
It is likely more a case of Apple not including the Vista 64-bit drivers on the OS X restore discs for non-Pro models then the hardware not actually being able to run it.
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Boot Camp drivers for my MacBook Air contains x64 drivers. You have to go into the disk to install it and not just double click "install.exe"
 
I do believe the bootcamp 2.1 update should work. You just need to download the file, put it on a USB flash stick, restart into Windows, and apply the drivers. When I installed it in Vista 32-bit, it looked like it had all the drivers for my Macbook Pro, just updated ones from the Leopard DVD.
 
I found the BootCamp 2.1 update - XP or Vista - would not work unless I had first installed the drivers from the OS X disc. In other words, I could not just apply the drivers directly from the update package as the only driver install.
 
CWallace said:
I found the BootCamp 2.1 update - XP or Vista - would not work unless I had first installed the drivers from the OS X disc. In other words, I could not just apply the drivers directly from the update package as the only driver install.
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Hence why it's called an "update".
 
Stridder44 said:
Hence why it's called an "update".
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Usually when it comes to drivers, you don't need to have an older set installed to install drivers labeled as an "update." It sounds like the only thing preventing you from using the drivers is Apple's own installer package.
 
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