Win 7 on a MacBook Pro(2011)

I was wondering is there a way to install and dual boot Win 7 on a MacBook Pro. I know about boot camp but wanted to know how well does Win7 run in bootcamp. Is there a way to properly install Win 7 on the Mac without any performance drawbacks. With bootcamp you have boot into the MacOS first but i mean true dual booting like on system dual booting Win7 and XP.

 

Um, with Bootcamp you do not boot into MacOS first. Bootcamp is nothing but the drivers for Windows that will allow it to work on the Macbook Pro and access the MacOS file system. Parallels or VMware Fusion are what allow you to run Windows inside the Mac OS, hence you need to log into Mac OS first.

With Bootcamp, there will be no noticeable performance degradation. With Parallels or VMware Fusion there will be a noticeable performance degradation.

 

Oh ok. I though boot camp was something like VNware. So with bootcamo win7 will be able to run windows just like on a windows pc. Also I want windows coz I want tonplay some windows only games. Will there be any frame rate issues or will they run fine.
Also can I triple boot OSx win7 and Linux using bootcamp

 

Umm as far as I thought it's not allowed to talk about this sort of thing on the forums.. or was it the other way around? Mac Os Leopard on a regular Laptop?

 

@ Zeptinue

No Hackintosh discussion.

 

Bootcamp only supports Windows installation. You can try install Linux on your own on a Mac.

cheers ...

 

If you use parallel or vmware you should be able to use Linux, I haven't tried it but should work but afaik you can't use Linux in Bootcamp.

 

Oi, don't you accuse me of breaking the rules when I'm the one trying to find out which is which.

 

He's not accusing you, he answered your question which one was illegal to talk about.

 

Ah my bad, he could have been a bit more succinct.

 

He used 3 words, it would be hard to have been more succinct.

OP, put the windows disc in the MBP and boot - it is extremely easy to get it up and running.

edit: triple booting with *nix will be a bit more invasive, and you can't use bootcamp, so you need to replace the bootloader. Google is your friend.

 

Invasive and, IMO, not worth the effort when Parallels, VMWare, or even VirtualBox works perfectly. The modern MacBook Pro has plenty of hardware to run Linux extremely well in a virtual machine. Even Windows is fine as long as you're not doing a ton of gaming.

 

Here is video proof in this video review of Linux running in vmware on the new MacBook pro 2011 YouTube - The New MacBook Pro 2011 Review by Justin Bieber and how fast it loads, hope this helps!

 

I thought a "Hackintosh" was running OSX on a "pc", rather than the other way around. Don't see the usage presently-discused would be objectionnable unless it involved using a hacked BIOS or bootloader that was copywrited by Apple.

 

Easiest way is this:
1)Boot into OSX -- go to Applications-->Utilities and run BootCamp Assistant
This will download then burn to dvd the drivers you need for windows
2) Go to Applications--->Utilities and run Disk Utility
From here you need to partition your drive.
Split into 2 partitions OSX and Windows.
*******Be sure that the size of your windows partition is as big/small as you want it as it is almost impossible to resize without running into trouble.
Paragon makes a utility that they sell for $20 that does a decent job.... but I always have issues.
3) Put in Windows DVD and reboot....... while rebooting hold down your alt/option key so you can select to boot from the DVD
4) In windows setup delete and reformat the windows partition you created in OSX (need to make it into a disk format that windows recognizes ...... you could also create your linux partition here from a portion of your windows partition if you so desire).
5) Run windows installation onto the partition you just formatted.
6) Once installation is done, pop in the driver dvd you burned from running the bootcamp assistant and let it install drivers you need
7) you are now done..... unless you want to install linux then you need to reboot.... hit alt/option key..... select the linux dvd....and then install in on your third partition....
******* you will need a bootloader of some sort if you have all 3 (or just do like I do and set OSX as default boot then hold alt/option key on boot up to select the others if desired)

D.

 

Ohhhh I see. Looks like bootcamp Shanghais Mac code/drivers, probably modifying and redploying it for use in Windows. I can see how this could run afoul of Apple's copywrite claims (though truly this should be considered fair use). I presume that that is the basis for the "illegality" of Windows on Mac (until someone writes their own drivers to support the Mac hardware).