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nicolastzi

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 27, 2013
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Athens, Greece
Hello, i am about to buy the 27 iMac late 2012 3.2ghz, 1tb,12gb ram, geforce 675m and i am interested in installing windows via bootcamp. Do you suggest Windows 7 or Windows 8? Thanks in advance.
 

Bear

macrumors G3
Jul 23, 2002
8,088
5
Sol III - Terra
Hello, i am about to buy the 27 iMac late 2012 3.2ghz, 1tb,12gb ram, geforce 675m and i am interested in installing windows via bootcamp. Do you suggest Windows 7 or Windows 8? Thanks in advance.
If you have to have Windows and you have a choice, go for Windows 7.
 

mr.thedaniel

macrumors regular
Feb 15, 2010
115
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Windows 8 all the way. Zero reason to stick with 7 now that the 8.1 update is releasing in October.

Especially if you'll be using bootcamp for gaming as I do, 8.1 will get the new DirectX 11.1 which is awesome.
 
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