Been running Win7 x64 on my MBP for six months.
Migrated it to VMware Fusion about three months ago.
Migrated it to VMware Fusion about three months ago.
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man please windows 7 on a mac is horrible !!!!
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man...your battery must be taking a beating...how much of juice do you get from the battery when you leave quicken open?
Ive had windows 7 Ultimate and Professional installed on my 13" MBP and both ran fine, no problems. Although i only used windows because the program we used in my "Intro to Programming" class was not mac compatible. As soon as i finished that class i deleted my windows partition and never looked back.
Although, i do miss playing battlefield 2.
Although, i do miss playing battlefield 2.
Just you buddy, I don't know why the installer didn't start for you in the first place, unless you were trying to install from an external hard drive, which you aren't supposed to. As for all your other problems, I don't know, 64-bit and 32-bit drivers all worked perfectly for me (even though Apple says my old Macbook isn't capable of running 64-bit), and I found it just as snappy as SL, even more so in certain tasks. It really is a fantastic operating system in it's own right, and way better/easier/more fun to use than XP when you need to run Windows programs.
Take a deep breath, calm down, and try again, it shouldn't take more than an hour if done properly (drivers, AVG, Firefox all installed). Best of luck.
Take a deep breath, calm down, and try again, it shouldn't take more than an hour if done properly (drivers, AVG, Firefox all installed). Best of luck.
I just installed win 7 on a 2006 imac. This isn't "supported" by apple as stated on their webpage. The install did not work following the boot camp directions, however, I followed the directions to install XP, and then installed windows 7 from the xp install (as others have pointed out, it wasn't an "upgrade" but a clean install).
The way I got my speakers to work was to go to Leopard system profiler, write down the hexadecimal address of the audio hardware device ID (I think this is realtek but in system profiler the device ID is hex 0xblahblah). Then I did a google on this hex number and found the drivers, I think through a link on this very macrumors site.
Windows 7 works and looks great. I really don't see why it would have been difficult for Apple to officially support it on the 2006 imac, but it would have made the install a lot simpler.
I can only agree with everyone that Windows 7 64-bit works like a charm on my MBP SR.
Sure, installing W7 64 required making a slightly modified bootable dvd and installing the drivers meant a few extra lines in the command prompt but within 5 minutes on these forums you can find an exact manual on how to install "anything" on your model of Mac.
It's fast and user friendly, I find myself much more in W7 nowadays then in OSX...
Sure, installing W7 64 required making a slightly modified bootable dvd and installing the drivers meant a few extra lines in the command prompt but within 5 minutes on these forums you can find an exact manual on how to install "anything" on your model of Mac.
It's fast and user friendly, I find myself much more in W7 nowadays then in OSX...
Battery life is a non issue for me. I connect my MBP to external power at least 90 percent of the time and hardly ever use the battery for more than a couple of hours before recharging. My MBP is my primary machine, as was the now 7 year old 17 inch Powerbook G4 the MBP replaced 2 years ago. I got them more for their portability from one place to another in my house than I did for use as travel machines. Anyway, if I ever decide to spend several hours watching DVDs on an airplane sometime, I'll no doubt shut down the Fusion virtual machine first.
Lol a lot of people here are blaming this on "user error". And that may be partly true, though Windows must be harder to install than OSX which can be done it 10 mins. So Win7 must be reasonably difficult to install
I managed to install windows 7 on my mbp and it works as well as one can expect it to, and I don't know jack about computers- I just rtfm'd. Still feels like driving a barge compared to os x but os x can't run gta 4.
I'm running Win7 x64 on my MBP and x86 on my Macbook with no problems what so ever...you need to be cool, calm, and collected before entering the Windows OS world, otherwise failure is inevitable.
Lol a lot of people here are blaming this on "user error". And that may be partly true, though Windows must be harder to install than OSX which can be done it 10 mins. So Win7 must be reasonably difficult to install
It has to do a lot with user error. Seriously though, who goes into a task that you might not be sure about and not read instructions before doing it? Installing Windows is straightforward with the only problem I see is formatting the partition to NTFS/FAT32. Boot Camp already sets up your partition for you (done, easy), then it tells you to insert the install disc and restart (done, easy). The rest is clicking next (with the exception of formatting which you should've read prior to installing if you weren't sure about). This is the same as formatting a Mac partition to Extended Journaled. Installing Windows is as simple as installing OS X. Difficulty comes down to the user and they had enough patience to actually read before doing something.
oooh.. that is probably the reason. I must have a bad windows 7 disk tho. because i cannot start the windows installer from it...
Im a network admin sir at my day job. I do know what i am doing just ran into some issues because it's the first time i installed windows on a mac. you learn from mistakes...
Yes, in the part of the process at which the Boot Camp Assistant tells you to insert your Windows disc, the program will ask you to insert the disc (because it will attempt to boot from it when it restarts) and then ask you for a reboot, if I rememeber correctly. All BCA does is help you create a FAT32 partition for Windows (which you'll have to reformat during the Windows 7 install process) and instruct the computer to try to boot from the optical disc drive before the hard drive on the next reboot.
Alternatively, you could always hold down C when rebooting (tells the computer to try to boot from the optical disc drive, then if that fails to boot the main OS) OR hold down the Option/Alt key (which will show you all methods by which you can boot, and the disc in the optical drive would be listed as a boot source should everything be set up properly). With a properly-functioning disc & optical disc drive, this works even without the aid of the Boot Camp Assistant.
It wasn't a jab at you. It was a response to the user I was responding to. Installing Windows is no harder than installing OS X and whoever thinks otherwise is just finding another reason to add to the Windows vs. OS X debate.
User error is user error. If you don't know, you don't know and you're bound to run into problems if you try to do something without knowing how to do it. But if you know computers, partition is a partition and installing Windows is the same regardless of the hardware so using the excuse "I've never installed Windows on a Mac" isn't a valid excuse because installation is the same on any hardware.
There's a difference between user error and coming on to an Apple forum to tell Apple users how terrible Windows is by making a thread blaming your user error on how bad "Windows bs" is.
Lol a lot of people here are blaming this on "user error". And that may be partly true, though Windows must be harder to install than OSX which can be done it 10 mins. So Win7 must be reasonably difficult to install
While I haven't installed it on a Mac, I have installed Win7 on my PC and it was the best Windows install experience ever. Better than Ubuntu as well. I'd say it's nearly on-par with OS X. Not quite there, but it was incredibly easy...
Gwast is correct -- when migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 you will not have an "in place upgrade" option. You will however have the option to select "custom" install when prompted. The Windows 7 install process will then copy all of your data in "My Documents" over to a Windows.old folder within Windows 7 itself. All applications and documents stored in other locations will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually.
For more information on the Windows 7 Upgrade, please go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7
For additional assistance with the migration of Windows XP to Windows 7, please go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee150430.aspx
Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team
For more information on the Windows 7 Upgrade, please go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7
For additional assistance with the migration of Windows XP to Windows 7, please go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee150430.aspx
Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team
Jessica -- Thanks for the amplification. When I shifted from XP to Win 7, backup copies of all of my XP data were on a network drive. Thus, rather than install Win 7 on the same Fusion virtual machine that contained XP, I created a new virtual machine, installed Win 7 and my apps, and restored the backups. It worked like a charm and I didn't have to look for the data in unfamiliar places.
With Win 7, Microsoft seems finally to have put out a product that is superior to XP but I don't really see much of it. Thanks to a recent memory upgrade, I can now run Fusion in Unity mode so that all Windows apps run under Snow Leopard's user interface. Unity is great if you have enough memory, i.e. a lot, but is both unstable and painfully slow if you don't have enough. For example, right now, with Fusion running Win 7 in Unity mode, iStat tells me that of the 6 gig of memory on my MBP, I have less than 700Mb that is free. It may be possible to run Unity with 4 gig of RAM but I wouldn't want to try it.
Unity itself shouldn't take more RAM than running in a single window. RAM consumption is based on the applications you're running in Fusion. Running Unity w/ 4GB RAM and I still have more than half of my RAM available.
Glad to hear it. As I implied in earlier posts, I don't have any personal experience with running Unity on an MBP with 4 gig of RAM because I upgraded mine from 2 to 6. What I do know, though, is that 2 gig of RAM was woefully inadequate for Fusion 2 and Windows XP on my MBP, although I ran Windows apps only from the XP desktop in their (more or less
) native environment. I didn't even try to run Fusion in Unity mode while I had only 2 gig of RAM. Others have reported that Unity creates a lot of problems with 4 gig of RAM, so I was encouraged to learn that you have found 4 gig of RAM sufficient to run Fusion in Unity. Are you running Fusion 3 and Windows 7? That's what I am now using.