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Thursday, February 16 2012 @ 09:52 AM EST Contributed by: Admin
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Notes about Windows 7 on a 10.4 Mac with Virtual Box |
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Friday, May 15 2009 @ 08:31 PM EDT Contributed by: Admin

- Basic info is at ttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/10/installing-windows-7-rc1-on-your-mac-for-free/
- You can use a Mac to download, but you must use Firefox (not Safari) to get it. It will use Firefox as a download manager.
- It downloads pretty quickly. I got it in less than an hour. Depends on your Internet conection, of course, but at least MS has this hosted on a good server.
- Along the way, you'll be given a key (serial number.) Print/save this number right away--the next time you click 'submit' or 'continue' or whatever it will take you to another page.
- Get the 32-bit version
- Good news--it's Windows 7 Ultimate!
- It's a "Release Candidate Customer Preview" so it should be pretty close to what gets released in terms of performance, stability, and features.
- Space needed: it's a 2.36 GB download, 4.96 GB installed into a VirtualBox disk image.
- Very first thing: install the guest additions.
- One down side: it may take some time to start up. On my 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro (which, to be fair, has been on for 44 days and has many apps and a ton of Safari windows open) it can easily take over 5 minutes. Once it's up and running, it's fine, but evidently it takes some time to read and boot from a 5 GB compressed disk image. :-)
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