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Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

Posted by Soulskill on from the see-you-next-year dept.

SkydiverFL writes "For those fans of Apple's Boot Camp package, it looks like you might be waiting on the next 'end of year' to use Windows 7 on your shiny silver boxes. Back in October of this year, Apple published a rather short, but affirmative promise stating quite simply that, 'Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp.' The support page has no updates regarding the new version. Maybe they're waiting for iSlate?"

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  1. The Vista drivers work fine by jonbryce · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no need to wait. I installed Windows 7 bootcamp on the day it was released on Technet, and it worked fine with the Vista drivers.

    1. Re:The Vista drivers work fine by PatJensen · · Score: 4, Informative

      This is not true. I also installed Windows 7 off of TechNet at launch, but a lot of stuff is broken. You will not get external audio jack support with Windows 7 OEM drivers on iMac 2009 machines. You will also not get internal microphone or mixer support with Windows 7 OEM drivers on iMac 2009 machines. If you intend on using any Voice over IP applications, Cisco IP Communicator, Ventrilo, Microsoft OCS - install Vista. And, updated sound drivers will not fix your problem. The Intel chipset drivers that ship native to boot camp are what are needed to map the mixer. Windows 7 driver support on iMac's are a sorry state of affairs.

  2. i just posted this comment on my 27" imac by rizawbone · · Score: 4, Informative

    running windows 7. what's the issue? everything works great.

  3. Re:Why bother? by furball · · Score: 4, Informative

    PC World's fastest Windows laptop in 2007 was a MacBook Pro

  4. Re:Virtualbox by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not entirely correct.

    Virtualizing the graphics card already has support for all the major VMs (VirtualBox, VMWare, Parallels, etc) and it's being actively worked on with support from the big GPU ISVs.

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  5. Its Very Doable now by anethema · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is some info not provided in the rest of the 'I'm posting from Win7" posts here is some helpful information.

    First, the Snow Leopard DVD includes boot camp 3.0, which VASTLY improves the use of the touchpad under Windows XP or Vista. It also mostly works under Windows 7.

    If you don't have a Snow Leopard DVD, here is a link to the drivers on TPB:

    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5054638/Bootcamp_Driver_3.0_for_Windows_32bit__amp__64bit_%28from_Snow_Leopard

    After installing this updating the sound drivers and video drivers would be advisable since the ones that come in boot camp suck and/or cause crashes.

    http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us for video drivers. Select windows-7 then 32 or 64 bit depending on which you've chosen.
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    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

    After this it should be reasonably stable.

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  6. Re:Why do you eschew choice? by mfnickster · · Score: 4, Informative

    If enough people request it, I'm sure Apple will include it.

    They already did-- but they call it "safe sleep," and it's not easily accessible from the System Preferences.

    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1.html
    http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html

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