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Win 7 on MBP

ROS123 · 2010-02-09 14:01:44

What are peoples experience / opinion about putting win 7 on the std MBP. I have a colleague who is very interested in having a MBP as his next laptop, portability, dvd, battery, We have not supported apple devices before and I am wondering how feasible from his point of view and from mine for support purposes. Hope I am…

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09-02-2010 3:01pm

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ROS123

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What are peoples experience / opinion about putting win 7 on the std MBP. I have a colleague who is very interested in having a MBP as his next laptop, portability, dvd, battery, We have not supported apple devices before and I am wondering how feasible from his point of view and from mine for support purposes. Hope I am on the correct forum.

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#2 09-02-2010 7:23pm
DarrenMSP

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It works fine through parrells and bootcamp.

Supported by Apple too...

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#3 10-02-2010 3:05pm
Shane O' Malley

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The only problem i have heard is battery life.

Seems the Apple drivers in bootcamp are not very good with power consumption. I know there was an upgrade to bootcamp a few weeks back so that may have improved things.

Shane

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