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Apple delays Windows 7 support
APPLE WON'T DELIVER Boot Camp for Windows 7 this year.
According to AppleInsider, the fruit-themed toymaker is going to miss its target for supporting Mac users who want to use Boot Camp to run Microsoft's latest operating system.
Earlier this year Jobs' Mob said that it would deliver support for Windows 7 through an update to Boot Camp by the end of the year. With only a few hours of 2009 left to go it appears that Apple will miss that deadline.
Apple claims that the Windows 7 patch for Boot Camp is still being developed but when the thing has been in development for so long you have to wonder if there is a problem.
Developers at Apple have had Windows 7 for months and getting it to run on their machines is not that difficult. After all they are Intel machines and operating systems do not usually pay that much attention to what badge is on the box.
Reviewers have also managed to get Windows 7 running on Apple machines and reported that it works.
We must not be the only ones wondering what's taking Apple so long. µ
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I like to snigger at it and them.
"Ri-Nickulous" - a mac is just an intel pc that's not running the world's most popular and easily accessible operating system. Instead it runs a hardly known OS that looks like the OS's on cheapo netbooks.
Very troll indeed.
I gotta say that Inq is quite late to the game as this is reported on 12/31 when all the companies are on vacation. Besides almost all technology reporting blogs and sites have already mentioned that there will be no Windows 7 support in bootcamp until sometime later in 2010 or after WDC. So this report is quite irrelevant like going to class when it's over already.
"Reviewers have also managed to get Windows 7 running on Apple machines and reported that it works."
Like a charm. I have it as a secondary OS - for gaming (sorry to disappoint the anti-Mac trolls).
You just need to use the Vista drivers from Bootcamp.
"We must not be the only ones wondering what's taking Apple so long."
Multi-touch drivers, maybe. Or some other feature that didn't appear in the Beta.
You are right: Win 7 works well even on Apple branded hardware. The problem, as stated in the article, is that Appple has not officially released a set of "Bootcamp" drivers to support the few Apple uniqely designed components in Apple branded hardware, such as the illuminated keyboard. Also, I guess, power saving features for Apple branded hardware may also not be optimized if you use the plans that are optimized for computers using BIOS as opposed to the emulated BIOS runnning on top of Intels (U)EFI.
I guess the delay is just a strategy from Apple to delay most Apple non tech savvy users from installing Windows 7 only to discover that Windows 7 is a very nice OS.
Dude, give it up. Your attitude suggests that you don't like Nick yet you read and comment on EVERY SINGLE ONE of his articles. If you don't like it, don't read it! There's plenty of other good articles on here....
You Apple fanboys need to lighten up a little. You can dish it out but you can't handle it... Almost every single Inq article pokes fun at names. Dammit, FireFerret, Fruit Themed Toy Maker, ect.
Windows 7 works fine with Boot Camp. The problem must exist between the author's ears.
I stopped reading at "fruit themed toymaker".. they allow any sort of troll to write at the inquirer I guess.
I too have been using Windows 7 since RC1 on my MacBook Pro with BootCamp and have had NO problems at all. On a side note, on my current MBP C2D 2.53 with 4GB DDR3 Windows 7 loads twice as fast as Snow Leopard. WTG Microsoft - finally a great OS!!
"Apple uses (U)EFI BIOS, so it is no wonder progress is slow and difficult."
So does Vista and Win7 x64. XP doesn't, still it works, so you can assume the real problem is something totally different...
On both of my Intel Macs I have Snow Leopard and also have BootCamp running Windows XP and Parallels Desktop 5 running Windows 7 Ultimate. I use Windows because there are still some programs that don't run on Macs like Subtitle Workshop and VobSub with subresync. There are still some sites that don't work properly with OSX browsers. Flash runs much better on Windows than OSX. It's easier to use DivX sites with Windows. I like Windows XP but just not as much as I like Snow Leopard. Windows 7 is fairly nice, and may move it to BootCamp when Apple makes it official.
I think there's room for both Windows and OSX but basically Intel Macs make running both platforms very easy to do.
LOL
If Apple OSX is so superior and just works why does everyone I know with a MAC run Windows on it? You dont see that problem from the Linux crowd.
Apple uses (U)EFI BIOS, so it is no wonder progress is slow and difficult.
My Macbook Pro has run Win7 since it was released. Runs just like it's supposed to. I suspect April Fools has come early. Win7 after all, is just a re-badged / fixed version of Vista...
In other news, the Inquirer delays firing Nick "The Ferret" Farrell for unknown reasons.
Readers remain hopeful that the firing will come sometime in January.
Support for what? I have been running Windows 7 on my old MacBook since the beta builds, works just as fine as on my PC.
Nevermind..