Will Snow Leopard's Bootcamp support Windows 7?

[Candlelight]

Or will they deliberately make us wait for an update?

Granted I don't consider Windows 7 to be Windows "7", seems more like Windows 6.5 to me. Doesn't seem that different from the Vista engine.

Do you think the next bootcamp will allow for a multi-boot option, or still restrict us to a single OS?

 

[ATimson]

For what it's worth, Leopard's Boot Camp supports Windows 6.1 RC1, so I don't think you'll even need to upgrade to Snow Leopard to run Windows 6.1.

I doubt it will allow multiboot, though. If you're running two non-Mac OSes... well, I suppose you could theoretically be running two versions of Windows, but you're probably running Linux instead, in which case use GRUB and may $DEITY have mercy on your soul.

 

[Amaris]

Leopard's Boot Camp also runs Windows 7 quite well.


J.

 

[Candlelight]

Leopard's Boot Camp also runs Windows 7 quite well.


J.

I'm doing the same but there's no Windows 7 option is there...? You have to use the Vista setting.

 

[Candlelight]

I doubt it will allow multiboot, though. If you're running two non-Mac OSes... well, I suppose you could theoretically be running two versions of Windows, but you're probably running Linux instead, in which case use GRUB and may $DEITY have mercy on your soul.

I probably will be running Windows XP for work and Windows 98 for my DOS-based games. I'm not going anywhere near Linux.

Sod it. I'll do it all virtual.

 

[ATimson]

I'm doing the same but there's no Windows 7 option is there...? You have to use the Vista setting.

Yeah, but since Windows 6.1 is more-or-less functionally identical to Vista, it works just fine.

I probably will be running Windows XP for work and Windows 98 for my DOS-based games. I'm not going anywhere near Linux.

Sod it. I'll do it all virtual.

For DOS-based games, yeah, that would be my recommendation; just use DOSBox. (Though to be honest, on my XP machine I haven't ever needed it to get a game to run, just to let me Alt-Tab or run in a window.)

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Granted I don't consider Windows 7 to be Windows "7", seems more like Windows 6.5 to me. Doesn't seem that different from the Vista engine.

I have been using 7 for about a month now. I would say it is about like the change from 95 to 98. It is based on the same platform, which Microsoft openly admits, but it is a major overhaul of that platform. There are both big changes and a number of little ones that make it very different. The other day I was installing Vista on my Mom's computer and when I was setting things up for her I kept getting frustrated that I couldn't navigate the same way as 7.

 

[Amaris]

Leopard's Boot Camp also runs Windows 7 quite well.


J.

I'm doing the same but there's no Windows 7 option is there...? You have to use the Vista setting.

I did use Vista drivers, yes. Once I did that, though, Win7 took over and updated everything.

J.

 

[DataCabbitKSW]

You can use the Vista settings for Boot Camp and it should work. Further, Windows 7 uses a newer GUID table Boot Manager for doing its OS boot loading, much like OS X does. So it can play well with that also. Most Vista drivers work fine in Windows 7, but you can get updated versions of many things through the Windows Update or from specific chipset and device manufacturers that are specific to Windows 7. I say go ahead and give it a try. All it will cost you is some time, bandwidth, a blank DVD-R, and some hard drive space to do a BootCamp dual-boot solution for using Windows 7 Release Candidate. Its free to download and use until June of 2010. Get it over here at: http://tinyurl.com/9agzvs