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Apple Stops Supporting Windows 7 in Boot Camp on New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Models
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For sure. I have an HP ProDesk with a Haswell 3.2GHz i5 quad and 16GB of RAM at work running W7 Pro (all that for the cost of a standard mini).
W7 works great. I do billing, online technical bulletin searches, and email with about twelve windows open at once. As much as I like Mac OS if I had to do the same work on a Mac I would go crazy. The BS rubber-banding, lack of snap and inability to close an app with a single click to the red box would be a deal breaker.
Also W7 is good for another five years. Our software venders would not even waste the time to write for Apple's three-year software and yearly OS Fashion Show. If you want real business work done use Windows.
This is exactly why Apple has done this. This article should have been informed enough to reference this.
Likewise. I have a retail copy of Windows 8 but I'm definitely looking forward to the free upgrade to Windows 10, it's so much better than Windows 8.x.
If you're on a PC that's still running XP or Vista it ain't going to have driver support for all sorts of legacy hardware in Windows 10. If it shipped with Windows 7 then there's a good chance it'll work OK.
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It sounds like they dropped the legacy BIOS emulation layer in the EFI on the new Airs, and 13" Pros as they had with the cylindrical Mac Pro. Though Windows 7 really is an eyesore on a retina; I'd imagine it would've otherwise been perfectly adequate on the Mac Pro and the MacBook Airs. I guess it was costing Apple more resources to keep engineering that support in. Oh well.
I guess that will prompt a wave of people to buy the 15" while it still has support.
I guess that will prompt a wave of people to buy the 15" while it still has support.
Supports it miserably.
I run it on my Mac Pro with Dell retina display, and it's a shocking mix of low-res, high-res, too-small and too-large elements. It feels like a hacked-together mess on a retina screen—not even mentioning the odd cobbling of classic and tablet-wannabe UI styles. (The latter looking nice... but design is also how something works.)
Then I reboot back to Mac OS X, with a range of sharp and predictable scalings, and everything sized properly, and sigh with relief.
What kind of stupid statement is this? Just because you are a thief doesn't mean EVERYONE else is.
DOS 3.30 FTW.
Tell me who's going to write the Haswell chipset drivers for Windows XP? Clue : Intel don't support it.
Windows 7's retina/4K support is quite bad anyway. Windows 8.1 is a little better -- not perfect, though. Older applications are terrible, usually a mixture of very tiny icon, cropped tabs, etc. However, you can control if you want pixel doubling or native resolution (tiny everything). Remote Desktop is almost unusable, so tiny, but Remote Desktop Connection Manager (free) is pixel-doubled and quite usable. The retina transition on Windows is much rougher than it was on the Mac. I'm running from VMware, not from Boot Camp, though.
Another reason I have no idea what to do when I have to replace my Macbook...
Apple keeps making the new models look more and more annoying... I hate that new trackpad as well - it doesn't click properly even on the firmest setting.
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They shouldn't do that, but they should however give support to the version of Windows that is most in use.
Apple keeps making the new models look more and more annoying... I hate that new trackpad as well - it doesn't click properly even on the firmest setting.
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They shouldn't do that, but they should however give support to the version of Windows that is most in use.
There's a big difference between what's officially supported and what is possible. I have a Mac Pro 2,1 that according to Apple is only supported for Windows 7 32bit.
However, I was running Windows 7 64bit and currently am running Window 10 TP on it.
I doubt that Apple is doing anything to make it impossible to run Windows 7 on these machines, they just aren't going to keep updating drivers, or in the case of something like the force touch track pad they won't be writing it.
But as someone else hinted at, there are plenty of us out here who will write hacks and produce the necessary kexts to make these things work.
But unless you have some piece of software that will only run on Win 7 and not on Win 10 you would be crazy not to upgrade.
However, I was running Windows 7 64bit and currently am running Window 10 TP on it.
I doubt that Apple is doing anything to make it impossible to run Windows 7 on these machines, they just aren't going to keep updating drivers, or in the case of something like the force touch track pad they won't be writing it.
But as someone else hinted at, there are plenty of us out here who will write hacks and produce the necessary kexts to make these things work.
But unless you have some piece of software that will only run on Win 7 and not on Win 10 you would be crazy not to upgrade.
+1, I'm also using a Dell 24" 4K monitor at work, and Windows 8.1 is not even remotely close to how well OS X retina works. Old Windows apps totally look like hacked together from a mixture of extremely tiny icons and text, and normal sized, but halfway cropped elements (tabs). I think it's still usable, but rough. The road is going to be very harsh, as developers couldn't care less. In fact I blame more the developers than Microsoft, although Microsoft applications are sometimes horrible as well. I only feel very minor improvements from Windows 7 to 8.1.
Yep, Fusion has worked really well for me, and for $30-50 one really can't complain about the cost. Cheapskates can use virtualbox.
I've never understood the appeal of Boot Camp. Hard partitioning of what's often already a limited storage device, only being able to run one OS at a time.
My need for a nested VPN for dealing with devices with crappy embedded Java code is served by an MSW7 VM. Until last year, I used an MSWXP VM, since some firmware had been abandoned such that it didn't work with MSW7.
I have run every version of Windows going all the way back and WFWG 3.11 is head and shoulders above any other version of Windows ever released. It was fast as a rocket, stable as a rock and allowed PTP networking. It was a dream and a revolution.
DOS 3.30 FTW.
Tell me who's going to write the Haswell chipset drivers for Windows XP? Clue : Intel don't support it.
Yep... I'm running DOS 3.30 on my Retina iMac with QEMM and 16MB of Expanded Memory and 32 MB of Extended Memory on it.
The other 23.9 GB is a RAM Disk that I have WFW 3.11 on.
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Where is clippy?
Have you tried Filemaker Pro?
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Different, how so?
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In what ways?
Well, here's one. Along with all those other commenters who have debunked this rather clueless assumption.