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    Boot Camp - 32 or 64 bit Win 7?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by pmoon, Oct 31, 2009.

  1. pmoon

    pmoon Notebook Guru

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    I just picked up a very sweet 15" MacBook Pro for a very good price. I am looking to dual boot Win 7 on it with boot camp. Do 64 and 32 bit versions work equally well? Should I pick one over the other?
     
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  2. S.SubZero

    S.SubZero Notebook Deity

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    Either is fine.
     
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    Mr.Yoshii Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have Win 7 Pro 64 bit in bootcamp and it runs great. It seems like most notebooks now come with 64bit Win 7. I would recommend having 4gb of ram. Just curious, why would you need it if your getting a HP Envy?
     
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  4. pmoon

    pmoon Notebook Guru

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    I purchased this for work. We are planning on doing some iphone apps. If the windows experience is good enough on the MacBook, I may decide to send the Envy back. It will be interesting to compare the two!
     
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    64-bit is the way to go! I just put Win7 Ult x64 on my 13" MBP via BootCamp and using VMware Fusion 3.0. Works like a charm in both situations, very cool :cool:

    I was surprised to hear Apple would "officially" support and update BootCamp for Win7 before the end of the year. I hadn't used it until just this past week (waiting for Win7 official release and bought a bigger HDD) but from everything I've heard and now used personally, Win7 x64 works just fine with the current BootCamp. Also if you're looking at the Virtual Machine route, be sure to get Fusion 3.0 as it just added specific support for Win7 x64.
     
    snork, Nov 1, 2009
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