Anyone brave enough to try installing on a macBook Pro yet?
Got the beta running fine on my clone PC at home. I was considering trying it out on the MacBook though. Gave it a shot on a virtual (VMWare) setup with little luck. Anyone got it running native (BootCamp) on a mac yet?
January 15th, 2009 10:35pm

http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/windows_7_on_a_macbook_pro.php World Peace.
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January 15th, 2009 10:40pm

Old build, no drivers from the fruit-folks either. Figured as much, working drivers for Vista didn't come out until last August for my version of the MBP.Thanks for the link!
January 16th, 2009 12:05am

I've installed it using Boot Camp on my Mac Pro desktop three days ago. Works great, no issues yet.
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January 16th, 2009 2:51am

Cool, two questions:1.) Did you use the Vista drivers off the CD that came with your mac or download the latest from apple.com?2.) Did you install it over the top of an existing bootcamp install or wipe it with Leopard?
January 16th, 2009 7:57am

I updated my vista64 to Seven64 last week-end. Programs are working better, VPN client, network, etc.. But there are some problem when resuming from sleep or hibernate. The screen stays off, i guess that this is a driver problem. And also the trackpad acceleration is lost. I can't also use an external screen, probably a driver problem.
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January 29th, 2009 1:40pm

I did a clean Install on a new Boot Camp partition.I used the built in Setupprogram from the Leopard disk 1.Then I downloaded the Vista 32 drivers from Apple... and everything workes flawlessly.I tried to run it also through Parallels 4.0.... using the same BootCamp partition... without success.
February 2nd, 2009 6:13pm

I installed Windows 7 RC32 in Parallels Desktop VM 4 on my MacBook Pro unibody last weekend. After the first install W7 froze. I deleted that installation and tried it again. After installing Parallels Tools after the W7 installation everything works fine so far. I do get a message in the W7 toolbar that my network has no internet access, but surfing and downloading is perfect
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May 16th, 2009 1:28am

I have a MacBook Pro (late '08 15" unibody model) running Leopard. I installed Windows 7 RC 64bit using the bootcamp method. Most drivers worked right out of the package. Needed to install drivers from the Leopard boot CD for audio and webcam. Unfortunately the 64bit multifunction touch drivers have not worked, so I don't have right click or two finger scroll. If anyone finds a driver that works for right click please let me know. I was pretty excited that by two days after RC release there were 64bit Windows 7 drivers packaged by nVidia for my 9600m video card. Edit: Note, I used a clean boot camp partition. I have read and heard from several friends that upgrading existing bootcamp partitions could lead to trouble.
May 17th, 2009 8:10pm

I swapped ina new Hd just for windows 7, and installed from the dvd i made from the iso. RC 32 bit(not brave enough to try the 64bit yet). after the updates, and without bootcamp drivers, the only 2 things now working where the sound and webcam. after bootcamp drivers(from osX dvd) sound works, webcam works but is too slow to use. Also found that before bootcamp drivers windows 7 worked very well with my mac bluetooth keyboard, after bootcamp not sogood. if you don't type anything for 10 sec it goes to sleep and when you start typeing again it take about 4 secs for it to wake up, and it's not buffering the keys, so I'm using a usb mac keyboard now. it's been working great for 4+ days of testing, even been playing world of warcraft all weekend on it, getting beter framerates than on my winxp load. over all I think win 7 is going to be a winner.
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May 18th, 2009 4:15am

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