Windows 8 on a MacBook Air

UberTiger · 7 Nov 2012 at 13:58

Anyone tried this yet?

I read that the proper bootcamp drivers aren't out yet, but it works pretty well in a VM.

Not tried it myself yet, but I'm going to test it out later using these instructions to give it a shot.

Brief video of Win 8 on MBA
http://youtu.be/oMbiA56-2p8

Installing Win 8 on a MBA using Virtual Box
http://youtu.be/pi1ClHsZHDw

You can download the ISOs from here

(How do I embed videos? I don't see a BB code shortcut?)

Ant84 · 7 Nov 2012 at 13:59

I installed the same ISO (64-bit) via Boot Camp on my 2012 Mac Mini. No problems whatsoever so far.

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Nov 2012 at 20:22

There isn't any problems installing it via boot camp. Just install the drivers and boom.

cheechm · 7 Nov 2012 at 20:49

Have Windows 8 on Parallels. Its crap. Don't bother.

LFletcher · 8 Nov 2012 at 10:55

Installed it on my MBA via Bootcamp the other week. Seems to work fine with the Win7 drivers.

PoliticallyCorrect · 8 Nov 2012 at 13:09

probably works well in bootcamp if Microsoft haven't changed driver requirements from windows 7. Windows 8 runs terrible in VirtualBox for mac as of the latest release.

theheyes · 8 Nov 2012 at 13:11

cheechm said:
Have Windows 8 on Parallels. Its crap. Don't bother.

That's a bit harsh. A lot of people like Parallels.

Skyboat · 8 Nov 2012 at 14:28

theheyes said:
That's a bit harsh. A lot of people like Parallels.

Unless he means Windows 8

Personally I have W8 via PD8 on my MBP and it's running brilliant. The DX10 support is very handy for my course as it means I don't have to dual-boot.

POB · 8 Nov 2012 at 15:04

I have a MBA 2012 and its Windows 8 support is poor.

You need a 3rd party drivers for most things:

http://www.powerplan7.com/

AbsenceJam · 8 Nov 2012 at 15:23

theheyes said:
That's a bit harsh. A lot of people like Parallels.

Heheh.

Feek · 8 Nov 2012 at 16:03

theheyes said:
That's a bit harsh. A lot of people like Parallels.

I see.

What you did there

rare · 8 Nov 2012 at 16:23

I've got it running from boot camp. It works fine. I used all apples drivers for windows 7 and everything works as it should. I just think its a flawed OS in its design, and have only logged in to it a few times :/

theheyes · 8 Nov 2012 at 16:46

Feek said:
I see.

What you did there

mrochester · 8 Nov 2012 at 18:46

Is it possible to have more than one native Windows installation on a Mac? I would like to have OSX, 7 and 8 if I can.

cheechm · 9 Nov 2012 at 08:10

theheyes said:
That's a bit harsh. A lot of people like Parallels.

ICWUDT. I find Windows 8 hard to navigate if you have hot corners turned on (unless there's a way of turning them off only while in Parallels?)