Looking to use boot camp on my imac 2.66ghz to run Windows 7. Which version of Win 7 do I need, can I use an upgrade version or need full?

I decided to buy a Win 7 HP 32-bit OEM, and then started wondering whether I'll be able to use it on my MacBook. I read the Boot Camp Assistant installation instructions, and it only refers to Vista, so I thought I might have made a mistake. Then I came across some notices indicating that some MacBooks will not be getting Win 7 support.

I didn't see my device on the list, but I just have Leopard, not Snow Leopard. So do I have to upgrade the Boot Camp Assistant app or anything? Can I just do a clean install of Win 7?

Oh, I also have a 64-bit OEM version, but got the 32-bit specifically for the MacBook. Can I use the 64-bit, or will there be fewer problems installing the 32-bit version? Oh yes, I also have Parallels.

I was running a Win2000 box, but decided to delete it since it wasn't set up in Boot Camp and it wasn't terribly reliable. Assume I can still use Parallels once I get Win 7 installed, but do I have to upgrade to the latest version of Parallels? Might I actually be better off installing under Parallels and just ignore Boot Camp altogether?

Or is the Boot Camp installation more advantageous? Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? You will have to wait for Apple to release Boot Camp support for Windows 7, for which you will need to be running Snow Leopard.

I have been using Parallels for Windows 7, which is currently the only product that supports it officially. It has been great! I hope that this helps.

Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? I have the latest version of Parallels so I'll just use that. But I don't understand this Snow Leopard thing.

Do I have to buy an upgrade to 10.6 from 10.5.8 or will it just update to 10.6 at some point? Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Freewheeling wrote:... Do I have to buy an upgrade to 10.6 from 10.5.8 or will it just update to 10.6 at some point?

I highly doubt you'll find the upgrade release as a freebie.To get to 10.6 you must buy up. Well, maybe after the next major release or two and version changes. Then, only after Snow Leopard is put into the archive as an old and or no longer supported release.

Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? OK one more question. I have a 2 Gig processor with 2GB of RAM.

How much do I need to allocate for 7 for it to work properly. I know that if I used Boot Camp I could use all 2GB but under Paralells it tries to keep them both going. Also, how much disk space.

I'm thinking 60 G should be enough. Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? I have an iMac 24'' (6,1) , baught Oct 31, 2009 11:24 PM7, with C2D Processor (2,16 GHz).

I want to install Windows 7 (32 or 64 is not important) on it with bootcamp. I read that a new bc version for win 7 will be released this year, but also thats ome older imacs will not be supported: Note: The following models will not be supported for use with Windows 7 using Boot Camp. Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp?

HP and Dell OEMs often do not work on other hardware. System Builder versions such as sold by Newegg are fine. So would Windows 7 Family Pack (Home Premium) that comes with 3Oct 31, 2009 11:24 PM9 and 3 licenses.

Apple list os supported 64-bit has never listed the iMac. Welcome to the forced upgrade and planned obsolescence. Like having to buy Snow Leopard to get Boot Camp 3.1. VMs have been supporting Windows 7, guess they want to jump on the new version upgrade path.

Check and see if Sun's VirtualBox will do the trick, it should, for free. Apple has never provided thermal sensor fan control, so Macs ran hot and has been both annoying and a real problem. I couldn't stand running Vista in a VM, I also didn't like that I couldn't really make full use of 5-button mouse and other things.

So I prefer running native (Boot Camp). Do what you want, use Boot Camp 2.0. Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp?

Someone has hijacked my thread, which is OK, but I'd still like to know how to allocate RAM when I use Parallels to run a Windows 7 Pro Virtual Machine. Also, just for the heck of it, can I run the 64 bit version if I'm only using Leapard 10.5.8? That's not a big deal, since I have both 32 and 64 bit versions, but thought I'd ask.

Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Look, I'm not sure why you hijacked my thread, and I'm glad it helped, but I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to my question. When you use Parallels I assume you have to divide the available RAM between Leopard and the Virtual Machine, and I have only 2GB available.

If I assign 1.5 to the 7 Pro virtual machine does that mean I only have 0.5GB left to run Leopard? Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Look, I'm not sure why you hijacked my thread, and I'm glad it helped, but I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to my question.

When you use Parallels I assume you have to divide the available RAM between Leopard and the Virtual Machine, and I have only 2GB available. If I assign 1.5 to the 7 Pro virtual machine does that mean I only have 0.5GB left to run Leopard? Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp?

Just installed windows 7 in bootcampThe issue I had is that the wireless keyboard and mouse does not work in windows 7 Otherwise perfect running W7 ultimate 64 bit This means that if you want to boot back to Snow Leopard, then you have to press CTRL/ALT with a wired keyboard at boot up. That is a pain so I have removed it and gone back to snow leopard only. Will try again when it is better supported.

WARNING Installing W7 meant I needed to re-format the windows partition at install to NTFS. OK if you can live with a wired keyboard. If not or if you uninstall W7 and remove the NTFS partition, then windows leaves by a corrupt boot manager.

Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Ask Parallels users.

Yes your RAM gets divided. And if you can't add more RAM (the ideal fix), you may want to Install Boot Camp partition and Windows 7 natively for if/when you need full hardware access; and let Parallels use that for its VM also. I would not limit Mac OS to less than 1GB.

Windows 7 is lighter, and it depends on what you are going to be running - on both OSs. 2GB is really pretty much what I feel either OS should have available. I've read and heard good things too about how well Sun's VirtualBox 3.

X runs Windows 7. Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? I am running Windows 7 Ultimate in a VM using VMWare Fusion.

I allocated 1 GB of ram for the VM and it seems to run just fine. I too have 2 GB ram total in my MacBook Pro but may need to upgrade my ram so I can add more to the VM. It works well and does not crash but more ram is never a bad thing, right?

Re: Can I install Windows 7 in Boot Camp? My MacBook has fairly frequent crashes, which I attribute to a bad RAM upgrade about a year ago (from Crucial). I just ordered 4 GB of new RAM from iFixit, hoping that it fixes it.

If it does I'll reinstall using bootcamp, and I think I can run the bootcamp VM simultaneously in Parallels anyway, so that will give me more options. BTW, I have the Professional upgrade. I gather that I'll either have to install win2000 first, or do two installs of Win 7 the first one without the product key.

Sort of an odd workaround, but I gather it works. One more thing. I assume that the Intel Chip in my MacBook has VT (Virtual Technology) so that should mean that I can install Windows Virtual Machine and XP Mode and it should work within the Win 7 VM.

Have I got that right?