Hey everyone,
I took delivery of my 27" iMac today and I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces on some games in Windows. I have no intention of acquiring a copy of Windows, I want to buy a license. From what I've read it doesn't really matter between Windows 7 and 8. I don't like the look of 8 but seeing as I'll be buying a license and only using it for Steam/Origin I think I might as well buy the newest. Anyway, here's my issue. As you probably know, the latest Boot Camp in 10.8.3 only lets you create a bootable USB from a 64-bit version of Windows. I'm living in Berlin at the moment but I'd like an English version. Am I right to think that a simple Windows 8 OEM DVD would do the job? I've found one here (sorry it's in German, Chrome can translate!) and I could pick it up tomorrow. It's not cheap but as I'm only going to use it on my iMac it seems ok to go for the OEM. Can any of you confirm that these are the steps I need to take? Sorry if I missed one, I've no experience with Boot Camp.
1) Put the Windows 8 OEM (English) DVD in my MacBook (which has a DVD drive)
2) Create an ISO of the DVD (using Disk Utility?)
3) Put the ISO on my iMac
4) Start Boot Camp Assistant and put a blank USB in
5) Select the ISO and choose the USB
From there I will just need to select how big I want the partition then everything else will be ok, right? Sorry for all the questions but I'd like to be sure. Thanks so much, it's really appreciated!
I took delivery of my 27" iMac today and I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces on some games in Windows. I have no intention of acquiring a copy of Windows, I want to buy a license. From what I've read it doesn't really matter between Windows 7 and 8. I don't like the look of 8 but seeing as I'll be buying a license and only using it for Steam/Origin I think I might as well buy the newest. Anyway, here's my issue. As you probably know, the latest Boot Camp in 10.8.3 only lets you create a bootable USB from a 64-bit version of Windows. I'm living in Berlin at the moment but I'd like an English version. Am I right to think that a simple Windows 8 OEM DVD would do the job? I've found one here (sorry it's in German, Chrome can translate!) and I could pick it up tomorrow. It's not cheap but as I'm only going to use it on my iMac it seems ok to go for the OEM. Can any of you confirm that these are the steps I need to take? Sorry if I missed one, I've no experience with Boot Camp.
1) Put the Windows 8 OEM (English) DVD in my MacBook (which has a DVD drive)
2) Create an ISO of the DVD (using Disk Utility?)
3) Put the ISO on my iMac
4) Start Boot Camp Assistant and put a blank USB in
5) Select the ISO and choose the USB
From there I will just need to select how big I want the partition then everything else will be ok, right? Sorry for all the questions but I'd like to be sure. Thanks so much, it's really appreciated!