Install Windows 7 on a Mac

"I tiried Windows 7 on my Mac Pro and it was ok but i deleted it after 3 days. I just can't see myself going back to windows any time soon. I was a hard core Windows user since Windows 286 but switched after having to reinstall Windows XP so many times that I had to make a Hard Drive Image just to save time. I wasted so much time on XP the my boss got fed up and bought me a Mac lol. Been using OS X every since."

I am mainly a windows user but I have experience with macs dating back 20 years and play with hackintosh boxes a lot these days. I have someone like you at my work and I tried giving him a mac. He tried it for a few days, I showed him how to do the things he needed to do for work and he wouldn't have it.

Now my point isn't that the switch didn't work, but the whole reason it was attempted was because he doesn't know what NOT to click on when browsing and then will infect himself with spyware.

Why did you have to reinstall XP so many times? XP does not bork itself without user input normally.

Why could your co-workers seem to manage using it ok? (Those that did).

It seems that OS X which I love by the way, (I just threw it on a HP tx2500z and even touch works ok) is more forgiving to end users who repeatedly bork their boxes.

I bought my Macbook for $899 with the education discount. And VMware Fusion is $39 bucks for me. I am in the process of downloading Windows 7 only because one class requires Windows ONLY stuff. All the school computers are running WinXP and are so hampered with safety stuff they do not work, or take ten minutes to load a single application like MS Word! And I have a Windows Mobile Smartphone that hates my Macbook. I figure with the Windows 7 I can get Active Sync to work and hack my WM5 back to an NRGZ28 WM 6.1, and really let my hanging parts flap in the breeze!

As time goes on I learn more and more. Heck I am 45 and back in college again! What I am discovering is I am grateful we have at least four great OS choices for the general public; and each has its niche. Solaris, Linux, OSX, Windows. Each has its special place, and each serves that niche very well. The competition keeps the price down where we all can consider each option without needing to plan a heist or kill our parents for the money. I can get a Mac for the normal stuff. Use a Solaris for mission critical stuff. Use an old machine with Linux to do anything on the Internet without any care. And use the Windows for entertainment. To try to get ONE OS to do it all is futile and would wind up making a computer purchase up there with buying a house or getting married in cost. Im cool with cheap computer stuff. It is healthy for everybody that there is competition. Heaven knows, if people did not have computers these days, Civilization could be at risk of extermination. People would realize we do not actually need any of this stuff. In real life we all would abandon Civilization and take liberty as the most valued thing sought after. Then what would we be left with? Just a lot of dead computers to make artificial reefs with. The horror! As long as I am in school and seeking a better salary, please pray with me people continue to haggle over OS's and continue to support each and every one as their banner of identity. Or else I could be wasting my hours away with school. Ide rather be surfing and getting laid. Thanks.

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I keep hearing all this "When Windows was Windows and Mac was Mac" stuff, but c'mon - what year was the MacCharlie sidecar? And SoftPC came out in the late eighties!

I know that the Intel switch plus Boot Camp changed a lot of the dynamic, but still - it's not THAT new a concept to install windows on a Mac. It's just that now it doesn't have to be in an emulator to run...

just wanted to chyme in and say i installed win 7 beta 2 days after release in virtualbox with ease. 64-bit. i actually like the new layout compared to xp and vista, but she still aint no os x.

It's horrible. That taskbar is the most hideous thing I've ever seen. The start menu... to view all programs... scroll for an eternity? Really? REALLY? They looked at all the crap in Vista and still thought that was a good idea? I commend them on finally overhauling Windows Explorer. The one in came with Vista was one of the worst things Microsoft ever created, behind Internet Explorer.

And don't get my started on their control panel. Whoever organized that needs to talk to Trish Suhr for some basic organizational skills classes.

I will never again run an operating system that requires me to buy tools to fill the holes in their programming. Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, a real Disc Defragmenter. Those things should NEVER have to be bought by the consumer to take care of what the operating system should take care of itself.

ho ho ho....Open Source stuff definitely work and look better....and amongst the licensed stuff, windows is as lame as it is helpless!! We speak of Windows 7 simply because it is a compensation package for Vista! So Windows users-Enjoy the attention till it lasts! I would continue wit Ubuntu....
http://quiz-quotient.blogspot.com/2009/01/look-at-windows-7.html

I have win7 running via Bootcamp. It's decent enough, and I can play Left4Dead with pretty good results.

No problems to speak of.

I installed W7 in a 20gb partition, and was left with 11gb. 20gb seems like a lot to me, but not to Windows... I think if I were going to install it again (and I probably will) I'd give it 30gb.

I was very impressed with the way it handled the hardware, too. It installed the correct video drivers, giving me the full Aero Glass UI even on my MacBook's crappy Intel GMA950 graphics "card". I could even span the desktop across both my monitors, something I could never get XP or Vista to do correctly (or at all). It seems like Microsoft is finally starting to understand that ease of use isn't a bad thing.

I installed on bootcamp partician...It runs fantastic.

Someone had a question on Firefox running in safemode from the task bar. Put a desktop shortcut and launch from there and firefox runs fine.

Someone asked how to download. I got tired of trying to download through Leopard and downloaded on my windows xp machine. Then sent it over through shared files and burned iso in disk utility.

I love my OS X but Windows 7 is so darn pretty. And I love the popup icons in the task bar. Lot of nice stuff for apple to use in snow leopard.