windows 7 and osx

[myfirstmacbook]

I have not upgraded to snow leopard and I want to run Win 7 on my osx macbook and I've been searching for an answer (maybe I just suck at searching) and I can't seem to find anything answering the question if I can use Win 7 on OSX without upgrading to Snow leopard.

thans

 

[MacDawg]

Sure, you can use it either natively with Bootcamp or by virtualization (VMware Fusion or Parallels or even VirtualBox)

 

[Bennieboy©]

how to install windows on Mac osx leopard 😉

 

[myfirstmacbook]

thanks for the fast response. I'm planning to dual boot my mac at some point tonight but I didn't want to screw anything up.

 

[MacDawg]

thanks for the fast response. I'm planning to dual boot my mac at some point tonight but I didn't want to screw anything up.

If you Bootcamp, be sure to print and follow the directions, and pay careful attention to what you are doing 🙂

 

[Hmac]

Will the Windows drivers on the Leopard disk work with Windows 7?

 

[myfirstmacbook]

If you Bootcamp, be sure to print and follow the directions, and pay careful attention to what you are doing 🙂

I am using bootcamp 🙂 I'm very nervous about screwing this up

 

[myfirstmacbook]

windows went through the installation process and restarted the mac, then it said "hit any key to boot from dvd" did i screw up?

edit: never mind I think I figured it out.

 

[myfirstmacbook]

updating windows no...i'm sorta excited...and nervous to get back to osx and make sure i didn't screw the pooch

 

[balamw]

Will the Windows drivers on the Leopard disk work with Windows 7?

No. W7 support requires Boot Camp 3.1, which is a downloadable update from the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers on the Snow Leopard disc.

myfirstmacbook sounds like you made it.

B

 

[myfirstmacbook]

yep everything worked out fine and i'm back on osx now. thanks for all the help 🙂