2012 iMac, Windows 7 32bit, and bootcamp

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Arman

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• Dec 31, 2012

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Doesn't work at least with Home Premium version. Bootcamp assistant says 2012 iMac only supports 64bit installations. Bummer. Stupid legacy work programs only support 32bit.

Any suggestions?

 

iLondoner

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• Dec 31, 2012

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Googling brings this up in other threads. I don't understand why it should be a problem though, on my 2011 MacBook Air (Mountain Lion) I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit in Bootcamp, plus Windows XP Pro under Parallels.

 

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Arman

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• Dec 31, 2012

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Confirmed. Does not work for any 32bit versions of Windows 7. I don't understand why? All the 2011 had full support for both 32 and 64 bit.

 

Richdmoore

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• Dec 31, 2012

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I find that parallels works really well on my 2011 iMac, it may be the solution so you can keep running your legacy software.

 

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Arman

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• Dec 31, 2012

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Yeah, will give that a try.

 

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Arman

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• Jan 3, 2013

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Update, installed Parallels 8. No problem installing Windows 32bit through VM. Everything is up and running fine.

 

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MEGrubb

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• Jan 3, 2013

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Arman said:

Update, installed Parallels 8. No problem installing Windows 32bit through VM. Everything is up and running fine.

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I understand you're using this to run your legacy programs, but how would Parallels work when using windows to run certain video games?

 

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Arman

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• Jan 3, 2013

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MEGrubb said:

I understand you're using this to run your legacy programs, but how would Parallels work when using windows to run certain video games?

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Not as good as running native bootcamp. You have to share VRAM and I think you're going to take a bit of a hit on fps. This will be an issue with latest games. On older games, probably should be fine but I would probably still use bootcamp for gaming.