Musings of a Marketing Maven » MacBook Pro http://christinethompson-blog.com Christine Thompson> What's on my mind: life and work Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Windows 7 & Mac? http://christinethompson-blog.com/2009/06/24/windows-7-mac_230/ http://christinethompson-blog.com/2009/06/24/windows-7-mac_230/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:13:00 +0000 Christine http://christinethompson-blog.com/2009/06/24/windows-7-mac_230/ Perhaps it’s an oxymoron, but I find myself wondering how well Windows 7 will perform on my MacBook Pro under Bootcamp.

I had my ear bent at a party this weekend by a guy who had just installed Windows 7 Release Candidate on his PC. He enthused that it was the first time in a long while that he had actually enjoyed using Windows. It got me thinking…

So I tweeted yesterday and asked if anyone had tried installing Windows 7 on their Mac. To date, I’ve had no replies…

Perhaps I’m odd. I’m not a Mac-versus-PC kind of person. Instead, I’m a “both and…”

So, if anyone has tried to install Windows 7 RC on a Mac, let me know what your experience has been so far.

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The question is, how long before Apple updates its Bootcamp drivers so those of us running Vista on our MacBook Pros or other Intel-based Macs can update our copies of Vista to SP2?

My take: I bet we’re looking at a 60–90 day wait before Apple completes its Mac-specific driver updates and runs the QA pass…

I have to admit, so far my experience running Bootcamp and Vista on my MacBook Pro has been flawless. Based on that, I’m looking forward to SP2’s promised performance improvements.

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