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Windows 8 on 2010 11" Air

UniPro

UniPro

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So being the crazy tech guy that I am I decided to download and try out the Windows 8 Developer preview last night. I also decided to try and get this working on my 11" MBA.

What is working: Keyboard, basic touchpad functions, and wifi all worked out of the box. Display drivers took a little work but I was able to get my Nvidia drivers to install properly.

What isn't working: Sound, Multi-touch recognition on the trackpad, iSight camera, and Bluetooth, among a few other minor things as well.

Just wondering if anyone else has attempted to install Windows 8 yet and if anyone would be willing to help me out getting these things working. Really just want sound and a proper multi-touch but not sure if that's possible.

I'll keep tinkering around for now, and I'll update my progress.

BTW Windows 8 is nice and fast, still prefer Lion though.
 
You realize it's a pre-beta release, right? Not a jab at OSX but just making sure you understand that the developer preview is a FAR from finished version of the OS.

UniPro said:
BTW Windows 8 is nice and fast, still prefer Lion though.
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I will be attempting to install Windows 8 on my bootcamp partition later tonight (2011 13" MBA). I will likely post my results here.
 
Obvious question I guess, but you did this via Bootcamp? Is it possible to install using VMWare as a virtual machine?
 
I installed it in a Parallels 7 VM last night but haven't had time to do to much with it. I'll try again tonight. It seemed to choke a bit when trying to shut down, so I might need to tweak the VM settings.
 
zerind said:
You realize it's a pre-beta release, right? Not a jab at OSX but just making sure you understand that the developer preview is a FAR from finished version of the OS.
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Oh I'm completely aware of that, I was expecting it to be rough around the edges and to spend a lot of time tinkering with stuff to get things working properly. I love this kind of challenge :D. I also ran the Windows 7 developer preview so I have prior experience with beta OS's

DieterRams said:
Obvious question I guess, but you did this via Bootcamp? Is it possible to install using VMWare as a virtual machine?
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I downloaded the Bootcamp windows support software but outside of that I did everything manually. The Bootcamp software is how I got my display drivers to install.
 
I just completed the install and setup of Windows 8 on my 15" MBP.

It's really fast and there's not many bugs considering this is a very early version. I'm going to enjoy this OS.
 
Just install the other drivers? Everything works on Win 7 and it pretty much should work here.

Coz this preview is really a Windows 7 with added Metro UI and some few tweaks.


OT: I tried Win 8 on my mum's HP 6910p - I'm really excited about the boot times.
 
vitzr said:
I just completed the install and setup of Windows 8 on my 15" MBP.

It's really fast and there's not many bugs considering this is a very early version. I'm going to enjoy this OS.
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Any tips you can give us, or no surprises here?
 
komoornik said:
Just install the other drivers? Everything works on Win 7 and it pretty much should work here.

Coz this preview is really a Windows 7 with added Metro UI and some few tweaks.


OT: I tried Win 8 on my mum's HP 6910p - I'm really excited about the boot times.
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I tried just installing the other drivers, some fail, others report successful installation but won't work. Still can't complain though, everything works pretty well and the whole OS flies.
 
Check the youtube - search for the macbook air Windows Developers Preview.

Hint: try enabling Windows 7 compatibility mode on those drivers.
 
komoornik said:
Check the youtube - search for the macbook air Windows Developers Preview.

Hint: try enabling Windows 7 compatibility mode on those drivers.
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Not sure why I didn't try that earlier. I feel stupid. LOL. Got everything else working now. Thanks for the tip!
 
win8 crazy graphic glitches

on my 2011 MBA 13" i7 I actually have screwed up visuals, I get the screen divided in two (in landscape) and the exact same thing mirrored below - so I can never see the bottom half of the screen. The intelHD drivers won't install either - says "This computer does not meet minimum requirements...."


Also I can't do compatibility mode.. when I try and click " Run Program" nothing happens..
anyone else?
 
Shael said:
on my 2011 MBA 13" i7 I actually have screwed up visuals, I get the screen divided in two (in landscape) and the exact same thing mirrored below - so I can never see the bottom half of the screen. The intelHD drivers won't install either - says "This computer does not meet minimum requirements...."


Also I can't do compatibility mode.. when I try and click " Run Program" nothing happens..
anyone else?
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Same problem for me. It works if I connect the MBA to a display but only that External display and not the MBA screen.

Looking on twitter, some people did get it working so if a few people nag them, they may release how it do it soon.
 
qwerf123 said:
Same problem for me. It works if I connect the MBA to a display but only that External display and not the MBA screen.

Looking on twitter, some people did get it working so if a few people nag them, they may release how it do it soon.
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Ahh.. good to know i'm not the only one.. i thought maybe my video hardware was programmed to melt if it smelt microsoft..

Please let us know if you figure out what the problem is..

I have a feeling x86 version would work.. but i rather wait for x64
 
qwerf123 said:
Same problem for me. It works if I connect the MBA to a display but only that External display and not the MBA screen.

Looking on twitter, some people did get it working so if a few people nag them, they may release how it do it soon.
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Same here. I wonder if it's a 13" screen problem. Please let us know if there is a workaround posted.
 
Has anyone else gotten this error when trying to move the files to usb in boot camp? Can someone help? I've tried with two different flash drives and it does not want to work.
Thanks
 

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