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Apple To Add Windows 7 Support to Boot Camp Later This Year

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:26 UTC

Apple has stated on its website that will add support for Windows 7 to Boot Camp later this year. "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."

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Already works.

by leos on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 23:33 UTC

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2005-09-21

Running Windows 7 Pro on my iMac. Works just fine already.

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RE: Already works.

by darknexus on Sat 24th Oct 2009 00:06 in reply to "Already works."

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2008-07-15

Well it should, seeing as how it's mostly Vista under the hood. What would a bootcamp software update be needed for? A driver update I could understand if some of the windows driver APIs had changed as they did from XP to Vista, but that's not the case in 7.

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RE[2]: Already works.

by Panajev on Sat 24th Oct 2009 09:31 in reply to "RE: Already works."

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2008-01-09

I'll give you a couple of reasons...

The official WiFi and GPU drivers are relatively ancient and cause issue with some applications (to be fair the official Mac OS X WiFi driver is not as good as the updated Broadcom one on Windows either as far as WiFi stability is concerned [it just won't like to be assigned an address through DHCP and has other stability issues]).

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