Windows 7 Bootcamp

[BigMacUBC]

Hi guys, I was wondering if any has installed windows 7 on their macbook air 2010 yet? I have the 13' base model with 2gb and am a little hesitant on installing it. Can anyone share their experiences please.

Thanks!

 

[tmoerel]

Hi guys, I was wondering if any has installed windows 7 on their macbook air 2010 yet? I have the 13' base model with 2gb and am a little hesitant on installing it. Can anyone share their experiences please.

Thanks!

I installed it on a 13" ultimate and it works perfectly. 2Gb should be more than enough.
At work we are running windows 7 on some ancient PC's with 512Mb of RAM.

 

[Grannyville7989]

I ran Windows 7 on a computer that had 1GB of RAM for a while and it ran fine.

 

[balamw]

Just note that:

• 2 GB RAM is the system requirement for 64 bit editions, 1 GB for 32 bit.
• You really get no advantage from running 64 bit on a system with < 4GB of RAM
• With only 2 GB, you would have less RAM for apps under a 64 bit OS than a 32 bit one.

Which is just a long way of saying: stick with a 32 bit edition of W7 and you'll be fine.

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[nivekr11]

I work in IT and I run Windows 7 Ultimate with 1 gig of Ram in VMware Fusion with no issues.

 

[balamw]

I work in IT and I run Windows 7 Ultimate with 1 gig of Ram with no issues.

You work in IT, but don't specify if you are running the 32 bit or 64 bit edition?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

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