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    Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    Lol, Windows 7 has problems but we are supporting it as soon as possible. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @jakster4u try{cake} catch(lie){}: My thoughts exactly.
    If 7 sucks so much as apple says, why supporting it? Does apple need it to sell its computers? #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Of course Apple needs to sell its computers. Apple has always believed their OS is better than Windows and yet they've had Boot Camp for as long as Macs have been Intel based.

    I can't believe you get a star and I don't #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @ndonahue: I think you lost the point of my reply.
    If OSX is by far so superior to Windows, why does apple still support boot camp? OSX would but just enough for your every need.
    Just because apple can't prove that OSX is, in fact, better than Windows (I'm not stating that OSX suck, BTW), they need to support boot camp to sell their computers to the newcomers and try to lure them into OSX.

    And no, the first Intel based Macs did not had boot camp. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: I stand corrected on when Boot Camp was released

    Apple, Inc is both a hardware company and a software company. If supporting Windows 7 and Boot Camp convinces people to buy a Mac, then Apple wins.

    Each user can see the 2 OSes side-by-side and judge for themselves. If someone prefers Win7, Apple still sold them a machine. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Apologies for the snarky star comment -- I haven't had my coffee. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @ndonahue: I never said that apple loses by supporting Windows 7. I think its great that mac have boot camp.
    What I'm aiming is at the Mac vs PC campaign.
    If apple focused their campaign on the OSX's qualities, instead of the opponent's flaws, I would be ok with it.

    Anyway, don't worry about the star thing...A star don't make you a better commenter. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    I keep pondering updating my MBP's boot camp partition from XP to 7. But I can't justify spending over $100 just to play the occasional game. Oh well. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @superberg: How much did you spend for the MBP? #bootcampwindows7
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    10/23/09

    @jasonliang: What does that have to do with anything? I use OS X for pretty much everything, and it works fine. It's just that I occasionally wanna play an indie game, and Win7 looks to be a lot prettier than XP. I boot into XP maybe once every few months to play Portal. It's a non-issue. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    i wonder the reason why, no 64 bit? but still.. supported both vistas. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    @fleebailey33: Actually, certain older MBP's even with C2D chips didn't "support" Vista 64. They didn't make all of the drivers backwards compatible, only "most" of them...

    As I so disappointingly found out last year. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis:
    that really sucks, i wonder why they do that. i guess they want you to use osx more. :P #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    @fleebailey33: I think it is a chipset limitation regarding 32 bit memory addressing... #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    Why no windows 7 for Pre 2006 macs? I have an original Macbook pro 2.0 core duo and I'm able to run Windows 7 RC1 in bootcamp perfectly fine? Why wont it work in the new Boot Camp? Do they mean it wont be "supported" or wont work at all? #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    @Trideep Gogoi:
    good questions,
    i hope it would mean supported #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    "Some older iMacs and MacBooks Pro (2006 vintage, with Intel processors) will be unable to support Windows 7 running in Boot Camp for whatever reason"

    This is purely speculation by good 'ole SE, but it could be that those macs used Intel Core Duo chips instead of Core 2 Duo, that latter of which allows for 64 bit goodness. #bootcampwindows7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Apple to Officially Support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Before Year's End, Caveats Apply
    Excellent. My order of the 27 inch iMac will be complimented nicely. #bootcampwindows7
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