Comments on: A Unibody MacBook, VMware Fusion, and Windows 7 Beta

By: Sikai

Sikai — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:36:16 +0000

Hi Tom,

thanks very much for your information. Could I ask that which MacBook you used to install the Windows 7? Mine is the basic config. 2GHz and 2GB memo. I don’t know whether mine Mac could run the Win 7.

Thanks in advance!

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:24:45 +0000

I have this set up also. Did any of you get the wireless working on your windows 7? I have to use some wireless testing programs for work, One is called “inSSider” anyway, I can’t get my Windows 7 to even register that there is a wireless card or see the airport.
Any suggestions?

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:32:51 +0000

Hey man…Thank you a lot for this page. I had some trouble installing windows 7 and getting the sound and everything to work. But I followed the way you said and everything works so far!!!!

By: Microsoft Longs For the Golden Age of FUD

Microsoft Longs For the Golden Age of FUD — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:03:46 +0000

[...] Mac OS X, but to read the Microsoft press you’d think it was a ground-up rewrite. I’m running Windows 7 on my MacBook and it’s a decent improvement over Vista. I have no problem giving Win 7 its due in this [...]

By: Friend

Friend — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:48:24 +0000

@ Tom Reestmann:

sorry, but the apple dock is a copy of “running instances” in windows 1.01 – check out some screenshots ;)

By: reggie

reggie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:54:47 +0000

Windows 7 looks promising, runs well for me, but I’m having some driver problems now.

For Daniel: For quick page switching in os x use expose or better, spaces. much more advanced than the taskbar in Windows 7 I think.

By: David

David — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:12:13 +0000

It looks like Microsoft really took the “Redmond, start your photocopiers” seriously. Look, you said the way the “dock” works with aero- looks like the taskbar really did steal some of the docks ideas.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:13:50 +0000

I, for one, just reformatted my macbook to clean it up nice and tidy so I could install a fresh copy of Win 7 via boot camp. I ran it in Fusion and was impressed by how light it was, and the fact that I find it to run even faster than my XP VM. When I finally booted it up in Boot Camp with the full Aero support….WOW…I have been a straight up Mac guy for over a year now and have probably convinced at least 10 people to go out and buy one and I must say that I am sad that I cannot make the smooth transition to Win 7 right now. I know this might sound like a shock to some of you, but the way the dock works in Aero with the Screenshot preview and the transparent transitions…has the dock beat by a mile, seriously.

I like things to look nice, but what I am most concerned with is getting the job done. The fact that I can have multiple windows open and so easily switch between them, not just switching between the programs themselves, using the new taskbar is Awesome. That really made all the difference for me.

OSX still has the edge in terms of ease of use for System preferences, which I find in Control Panel to be a pain, but man, I’m just so sold on the new task bar…you know what…I’ll just stop, you get the point. Try it yourself in Boot Camp.

By: David

David — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:44:45 +0000

According to VMware, 3D harware acceleration works with DirectX 9.0c but it doesn’t seem to be working on my Windows 7 Beta. If I launch a program (e.g. Solitaire) that uses 3D hardware acceleration, the whole system freezes and I have to force a restart. Aero doesn’t work either, but it just tells me I need to update the Video Card Driver. For now, I just turned 3D acceleration of in VMware’s settings.

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:41:10 +0000

Justin,

I have the exact same screen issue at boot. It goes nuts for part of the boot, but sorts itself out when the login screen comes up and is fine after that.

VMWare folder sharing is my issue, too. I finally settled on sharing just one folder (w/ Read/Write permission) and use it shuttle the few things I need to. Hard to say if this is a Win7 or Fusion issue, but I have a good enough workaround for now not to care that much.