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Boot Camp Imac Pro Win 7?

harleymhs

harleymhs

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Hey Guys, Im currently using an Older Imac 27 running Win 7 Via Bootcamp.. I read that the Newer Imacs won't support Win 7 .. and do not have any 7 drivers.. Is this true? Will the NEW Imac Pro Run Win 10 via Bootcamp? thanks!
 
You could run windows 7 in VMware Fusion (or other alternatives for virtual machines) of course. Depends what you are doing in Windows. I have both boot-camp (windows 10 64bit), and windows 10 64bit via VMware Fusion - hardly ever use boot-camp, but it is nice to have.
 
Does VMWARE Fusion cost or is it free? I used Parallels last time, but my copy is pretty old since I had a MAC last, so I can go with either one now.
 
VMWare Fusion is WMware's competitor to Parallels. I'm sure Parallels works fine, you can most likely upgrade your license fairly cheap to a later version of Parallels. If you are not doing GPU demanding gaming on windows, VMware Fusion/Parallels is much more practical. I have not used Parallels for years, but I'm guessing you have similar functionality to create a VMware of existing Windows installation.

I'm very happy with VMware Fusion 10; my 10 core iMac Pro actually gets better geekbench score in VMware running Windows 10 64bit than the old maxed out specified Mac Pro gets in clean macOS :)

Edit:
VMware Fusion is not free
 
TGB said:
VMWare Fusion is WMware's competitor to Parallels. I'm sure Parallels works fine, you can most likely upgrade your license fairly cheap to a later version of Parallels. If you are not doing GPU demanding gaming on windows, VMware Fusion/Parallels is much more practical. I have not used Parallels for years, but I'm guessing you have similar functionality to create a VMware of existing Windows installation.

I'm very happy with VMware Fusion 10; my 10 core iMac Pro actually gets better geekbench score in VMware running Windows 10 64bit than the old maxed out specified Mac Pro gets in clean macOS :)
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That's good to hear. I have a key that I was given to me free which I never used. I got from VMWORLD 2017 when I went. I just tried to use it and it won't work on Fusion as I was told it would. I opened a ticket with their support asking them about it, and will see what they say.
 
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