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January 20, 2010 at 5:22 pm

If you can remember from early this month, we’ve found out that support for Windows 7 will be coming soon; guess what, it’s finally here! Apple recently announced that Boot Camp now has full fledged support for Windows 7.

One of the only issues with this is that if you’re planning on using 64-bit Windows 7, only a certain number of computers will be supported.

You’re probably wondering if you’re already running WIndows 7, how do you update to these newer drives?  All you need to do is simply run the Apple Software Update utility when in Windows. It should find all your drivers and update them accordingly.

Now if your already running Vista, and you want to upgrade, make sure you download the Boot Camp Utility for Windows 7 Upgrade Installation Utility. This utility…

safely unmounts the read-only Macintosh volume on Microsoft Vista

So this is excellant new for the people who want to run Windows on their Mac. For me, this Mac (yes, I am typing this on a MacBook) will never see Windows “natively”.

Now you know that you can run Windows 7 with having your Mac OS X partition still boot up, have aero work, and have a very stable operating system running on your Mac.

And yes, we’re very “link happy” in this post!


Source: MacRumors

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Taylor Jasko
Author: Taylor Jasko
I've been fascinated with technology my entire life. I started to pick up on aspects of web development (HTML and CSS) a long time ago and started to get into "real" programming soon after. Right now, you can catch me working with Objective C, making iPhone apps along with system administration, and security. I'm also interested in graphic design, having designed the entire Tech Cores theme myself.
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Windows 7 x64 (likewise Vista SP1 x64 and Server 2008 x64) are capable of natively booting from an EFI-based system. Thus Bootcamp isn't even required if you do this.

I'm not sure about that just yet. Mainly for the fact that you might not be able to get back into OS X... :)