Running Windows 7 on a MacBook

So Ars Technica wrote an article about how to run Windows 7 on the new MacBook. Absolutely amazing! It’s the exact same process as running any other Windows operating system! I mean, wow, absolutely ground breaking material here.

Okay, maybe this article is amazing to someone but I’ve been running Windows 7 Beta on my first gen MacBook since the day the beta came out. Maybe I should have wrote an article like this.

“Pop in the Windows 7 cd, open Boot Camp assistant, reboot, install Windows, boot Windows, pop in Leopard CD, install drivers, call it a night”

Alright, I admit, I’m being a bit of an asshole here. They do go into detail about getting the proper nVidia drivers installed on the new MacBook.

Check out the article here. Don’t expect to run the 64bit version though. Even these new fangled MacBooks can’t do that. Not that Apple hardware is to blame, Bootcamp doesn’t have the supported drivers. Oh well.

Also it looks like my experience running Windows 7 on an old First Gen MacBook has been much smoother than their experience with a shiny new Unibody MacBook.