{"id":564,"date":"2010-05-30T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techsatwork.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:31:10","slug":"installing-windows-7-on-a-mac-using-boot-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Installing Windows 7 on a Mac using boot camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that I try out Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro using bootcamp. \u00c2\u00a0The install was a lot easier than I thought. The amazing part is Windows loads up in my Mac a lot faster than on my office IBM laptop.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-567\" title=\"mac-pc\" src=\"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mac-pc-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Before doing go ahead with the install, make sure you have Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update. \u00c2\u00a0Check out this article \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT3986\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT3986<\/a> . \u00c2\u00a0This answer most of the FAQ and helped me better prepare for the journey to the Windows 7 world on a Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of me typing out the steps I went through, I found a website \u00c2\u00a0called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplehelp.net\" target=\"_blank\">Simplehelp.net<\/a> that explains \u00c2\u00a0the same . You can find the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplehelp.net\/2009\/01\/15\/using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-your-mac-the-complete-walkthrough\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you let the bootcamp install the latest and greatest updates, this installs the drivers to ensure a smooth running of Windows OS. Now you can run the odd application(s) that will only run on Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that I try out Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro using bootcamp. \u00c2\u00a0The install was a lot easier than I thought. The amazing part is Windows loads up in my Mac a lot faster than on my office IBM laptop. Before doing go ahead with the install, make sure you have Mac OS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[5,293,6,292],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-misc","tag-bootcamp","tag-installing-windows-7-on-mac","tag-windows-on-mac","tag-windows7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}