Anyone loaded Windows 7 on a Mac?

Logsi · 14 Jan 2009 at 10:23

StevenG said:
got my mac mini yesterday, proceeded to install osx tiger.. couple hours later its now running windows 7

couldnt get on with the OS at all so im sticking to windows.

love the mini, its deadly silent which is what i wanted and it seems to be running windows fine on the native drivers only thing i dont have is sound which is strange since everything else works.

StevenG

Nice to see you gave OS X a really good chance before staying with windows.

It's not for everyone it seems but at least you gave it a really good run through so you know the ins and outs before making a proper opinion.

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Got windows 7 running on my old 2.33 17" and it's very nice, just having a play at the moment! I really want to put it on my Unibody 2.8 now as that's running Vista 64bit and seems old in comparison!

It was a breeze to install and pulled the drivers in needed when updating, much like OS X. I'm finding little things while playing so far like pushing a window to the top of the screen and letting go makes it full screen, i like that!

Ol!ver · 14 Jan 2009 at 10:42

Logsi said:
I'm finding little things while playing so far like pushing a window to the top of the screen and letting go makes it full screen, i like that!

It'll be interesting to see if things like this make their way into Snow Leopard.

Logsi · 14 Jan 2009 at 10:46

Ol!ver said:
It'll be interesting to see if things like this make their way into Snow Leopard.

Yeah, i'd be intrigued to see if they incorporate something similar. Wonder how it would work having the taskbar up at the top?

It's much better on resources over Vista also, at the moment 7 is using 784mb of RAM out of 4GB (3.3GB) on my 2.33 and that's after having it on for the past hour with me messing about installing games, programs etc. Vista in comparison is running at over 1.2GB of RAM on a fresh startup! :eek:

Johnz0r · 14 Jan 2009 at 11:03

Logsi said:
Yeah, i'd be intrigued to see if they incorporate something similar. Wonder how it would work having the taskbar up at the top?

It's much better on resources over Vista also, at the moment 7 is using 784mb of RAM out of 4GB (3.3GB) on my 2.33 and that's after having it on for the past hour with me messing about installing games, programs etc. Vista in comparison is running at over 1.2GB of RAM on a fresh startup!

While I agree with you that the memory management in 7 is far far improved over Vista, it is still not as good as Server 2008 (which with a little bit of jiggery pokery can be made to run as a workstation OS, and a damn good one at that.)

However, I think it is fair say to say that 7 is what Vista should have been, but many delays including the withdrawal of WinFS etc forced MS to release an OS that wasn't quite ready.

Logsi · 14 Jan 2009 at 11:13

Johnz0r said:
While I agree with you that the memory management in 7 is far far improved over Vista, it is still not as good as Server 2008 (which with a little bit of jiggery pokery can be made to run as a workstation OS, and a damn good one at that.)

However, I think it is fair say to say that 7 is what Vista should have been, but many delays including the withdrawal of WinFS etc forced MS to release an OS that wasn't quite ready.

I installed Vista 64Bit on my new Unibody MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago and this is the first time i have had a windows on a computer used it for the first time in nearly 2 years. I havn't had a look at Server 2008, i shall have a quick peek and see! IMO Vista has been very good for me, only has hard locked a couple times and personally i don't see what all the bad press was about. This is probably me buying in when SP1 is out.

Side not, IE 8 is blazing fast and I'm used to webkit on OS X.

Johnz0r · 14 Jan 2009 at 11:44

Logsi said:
I installed Vista 64Bit on my new Unibody MacBook Pro a couple weeks ago and this is the first time i have had a windows on a computer used it for the first time in nearly 2 years. I havn't had a look at Server 2008, i shall have a quick peek and see! IMO Vista has been very good for me, only has hard locked a couple times and personally i don't see what all the bad press was about. This is probably me buying in when SP1 is out.

Side not, IE 8 is blazing fast and I'm used to webkit on OS X.

Yeah that was one of the first things that I noticed when I first installed 7 on MBP, was the speed of IE. Counter Strike Source on my Early 2008 MBP plays far better than it ever did on 7 as opposed to XP or Vista but it could be because I upgraded the RAM to 4GB. Granted it should make a little bit of difference but not the extra 10-20fps 7 has given me.

Slogan · 14 Jan 2009 at 11:47

Logsi said:
Nice to see you gave OS X a really good chance before staying with windows.

Thought the same.

b0rn2sk8 · 15 Jan 2009 at 14:14

Ive got windows 7 installed on my early 2008 MBP. Not had much of a play yet, but as others have said, its simple. It seems good, cant comment on any games yet steam was downloading all night.

How does windows 7 work with fusion? Ive not tried it out yet.

Moeks · 15 Jan 2009 at 16:46

I've replaced Vista 64 on my HP 8710p workstation laptop with Windows 7 64bit now, I like it lot, better in many ways than Vista. Although I never had any issues with Vista after sp1 myself, especially 64bit, which I thought was quite good. Bootcamp proved a good test bed, to see weather there were any glaring issues with Windows 7, I didn't really find any and still haven't thus far.

However, I took the Macbook Pro back yesterday and got a full refund, after having it for 2 weeks. I changed my mind and ummed and arred over what to do with it, but I knew at crunch time, I'm just not a 'Mac' person, I liked a lot of things about OS X, but I prefer Windows on the hole, and having to keep rebooting into Windows or switching computers to do certain things got annoying. I gave it a chance, a good chance I think, but in the end it just wasn't for me.

So I doubt you will see much more from me in this forum now, I will say farewell and leave you all to it