Can Macbook Air run Windows7 as primary OS?

[johnhurley]

My question would be, is it fine for the Macbook Air to run Windows 7 everyday even though it was built to run Mac OS.

When I am running my mba late 2011 i5 13 inch 256 gb ssd under win 7 bootcamp it is the nicest and fastest windows machine I have ever used.

 

[Bigmacduck]

Buying an MBA in order to use it only to run Windows apps probably doesn't make much sense. That said, though, the MBA's ability to run Windows apps can nevertheless be a godsend.

I agree, but there is a nice thing about running Windows applications on a Parallels virtual machine: Windows apps run much better in Parallels Coherence mode on Lion instead natively on Windows. one such example is Outlook 2010 for Windows. i just love to zoom the reading pane of an email with the Lion 2 finger gesture pinc to zoom. That is not possible on native Windows installations, and it is also not possible with Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac.

So Microsoft Windows office applications are much easier to use on a Mac inside a virtual machine!

 

[theSeb]

You could only run Windows on your MBA, but I would recommend against it since you will not be able to install any firmware updates without the OSX partition.

 

[pjo]

interesting question: I didn't think the day we'd look at Macs the same way we look at Dells or Acers was that near

Yes you can. However, your question about it crashing etc is not related at all to Lion. Windows will behave as it would on similar hardware from another provider.

Any updates to the system's firmware (open firmware is what you have before the machine boots - or if/when MBAs get thunderbolt there will be firmware for it too) need to happen in OS X though.

That aside it should work.

 

[Robyr]

I didn't read gud enuff.