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    Just installed Windows 7 on MBP (late2008)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by watchrabbit, Nov 9, 2008.

  1. watchrabbit

    watchrabbit Notebook Enthusiast

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    Needless to say, the Bootcamp installer gives an error, but I managed to install manually pretty everything. What I still miss is: right click and scrolling, and the Fn keys don't work so I can't change the brightness, etc.. Didn't use Bluetooth yet but it looks ok. Rest installed flawless. Feel free to ask ;-)
     
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    chrixx Product Specialist NBR Reviewer

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    You beat me to it. Was going to try it on my Macbook but got lazy to reimage my drive and all. Since some critical functionality isn't there, I'd probably try it on a PC first.
     
    chrixx, Nov 9, 2008
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    kthung Notebook Guru

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    How'd you get a hold of windows 7?
     
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    He knows Bill Gates, obviously.
     
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    There are lot of way to get it. It is still beta. He could be part of a beta team.
     
    killeraardvark, Nov 9, 2008
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    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Ask what? Like why you even bothered? :)
     
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    watchrabbit Notebook Enthusiast

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    Like battery time, stability, such things ;-)
    Battery time is bad, around 2 hrs.
    No crashes so far, so it looks much better than Vista in their beta times.
    But I still didn't manage to activate the function keys, maybe there is a trick out there because everything installs ok (Apple Keyboard, on-screen display, etc.). But it doesn't show up. And is kind of weird to be stuck with the brightness on whatever level it was in OS-X...
     
    watchrabbit, Nov 10, 2008
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    Try the Bootcamp update EXE files from Apple's website. And run them under the W7 OS. Right click the Setup and run as Win Vista or XP. That might work. Compatibility mode in W7 is much better then on vista.
     
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    If that is true then it's great, then we could run Window 7 on bootcamp with less problem with all these beta testings
     
    chen, Nov 10, 2008
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