To get Windows 7 installed you will need Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update. – Mac Pro (Mid 2006, Intel Xeon Dual-core 2.66GHz or 3GHz) According to the Apple website the following models are not supported: This is made possible by the fact that underneath all the Mac and Apple branding the components are basically a standard Intel PC.īoot Camp works by creating a partition that is recognized by the Windows installation media on certain Intel-based Mac. Naturally you don’t want to get rid of OS X when installing Windows, so thankfully Apple created Boot Camp which allows safe installation of a Microsoft Operating System ranging from Windows XP to the newest Windows 7.

Well there are numerous valid reasons for having Windows 7 installed on one’s Mac and today we will guide you through the set up. Mac fans will view this as blasphemy and Windows lovers will probably ask “why didn’t you get a PC if you wanted to run Windows”. So you picked up your shiny new copy of Microsoft’s latest OS offering – Windows 7 and want to install it on your (cue dramatic music)…….

Windows 7 on macbook late 2008