Even Apple is climbing on the Windows 7 bandwagon. Boot Camp, the Mac OS X utility that lets Mac owners run Windows in a separate partition, now requires Microsoft's newest operating system, the company said Monday in a support document.
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CBT XPress, a Microsoft Partner, announced today that they will be including the latest Windows 7 certification exams as part of their highly acclaimed IT Boot Camp classes.
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Apple’s Boot Camp software is essential to running Windows on a Mac. But after many installations and much research, I’ve concluded that Boot Camp is second only to iTunes in its ability to inflict pain on Windows users. Here are five gotchas to avoid.
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I am using Windows 7 at home on my Macbook pro (boot camp). After installing windows 7 I connected to the internet and it gave me two passwords and made my home network secure. The second password is the one that works within the Windows 7 environment but I managed to wipe what was called the...
According to an Apple support note released Friday, the new MacBook Pro models and the recently refreshed MacBook Air won’t support Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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I currently run Windows 7 32-bit with boot camp on a 15 inch macbook pro, but I realized that it didn't fully utilize the hardware, so I decided I wanted to switch to 64-bit. I understand that retail versions come with two disks that allow for one to choose between 64-bit and 32-bit, but I...
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I would do a search but not knowing the tech terms, im at a lose.
I have windows 7 x64 on my mac book pro set up via boot camp and it works like a dream.
The only problem i have sometimes is when I launch a program it loads up and appears on the...
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I used boot camp to partition my iMac hard disk and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. The installation was successful except for a couple of error messages (see below) which keeps popping up during start up. Only after I click on the "OK" button would the start up proceed and complete its...
Install Windows 7 using the Boot Camp Setup Assistant (located in /Applications/Utilities), which partitions your hard drive and walks you through the installation process. The process differs depending on whether you are performing a new install of Windows 7 or an upgrade install from an...
Apple has finally released the necessary drivers to make Boot Camp fully compatible with Windows 7. Apple missed its self-imposed end-of-year deadline, but better late than never, right?
About Boot Camp Software Update 3.1 for Windows 64 bit
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I have a Win 7 Ultimate running off boot camp on an intel 13" Macbook.
When I choose the operating system at started (holding down alt), the Win 7 partition wont boot. It reports not being able to find the drive (the flashing gray folder with the question mark appears)
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Note: This article is adapted from Windows 7 Secrets Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading to Windows 7 --Paul
When Apple switched its desirable Macintosh computers from the aging Power PC architecture to Intel's PC-compatible x86 platform in 2006, the computing...
Snow Leopard consistently beats Windows 7 in many general performance areas.
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As someone who uses both platforms for work and personal entertainment, I've been wanting to do a performance comparison between Windows 7 and Mac OS X since I first got my hands on the...
I've got Windows 7 RC 64-bit installed on a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro (dual boot using Boot Camp) with an ExpressCard slot. I also got a FileMate SolidGO 3FMS4D48M-WR 48GB ExpressCard SSD; the drive works beautifully under OS X, but is not recognized at all by Windows 7 when it's in the ExpressCard...
I have an Intel quad core desktop and i installed the RTM from MSDN on here and the multitasking is insanely slow. My pc basically locks up while doing a lot of activities but my memory usage never breaks about half of what i have (4gb) and the CPU is never stressed more than 35%, what could be...
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I'm running a new Macbook Pro with OS X 10.5.7. I recently downloaded Windows 7 RC x64 Build 7100 and I was able to install it, but I am having driver problems. I installed the Boot Camp 2.0.1 drivers first, then ran the upgrade to 2.1 as many sites said to do. I'm having problems with...
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I used the boot camp tool to create a 32GB partition and formated within the windows installer. The installer starts expanding the files then freezes and halts at various percent values. I notice the superdrive spins down then powers down before this happens.
I ran the Apple diagnostic tools...
I am running on a mac book pro with boot camp for my xp. So I wanted to beta test for windows 7 and so I took out more space for windows 7 on the mac partition to make home for w7. The install for the os went fine and automaticly made a dual boot screen after I select windows in bootcamp. The...