Can I run Windows Vista on this? I switched from Mac to Windows exactly 10 years ago and have been very happy. But occasionally I do have hardware design envy. So now I'm interested in getting a Mac again, but I want to be able to run Windows Vista. Would anyone know if I'll be able to install Vista Ultimate on this? I don't plan to use OS X at all, so can I completely get rid of it? Thanks. Can I run Windows Vista on this? I switched from Mac to Windows exactly 10 years ago and have been very happy. But occasionally I do have hardware design envy. So now I'm interested in... » Read More Can I run Windows Vista on this? I switched from Mac to Windows exactly 10 years ago and have been very happy. But occasionally I do have hardware design envy. So now I'm interested in getting a Mac again, but I want to be able to run Windows Vista. Would anyone know if I'll be able to install Vista Ultimate on this? I don't plan to use OS X at all, so can I completely get rid of it? Thanks. « Show Less
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Yes. You'll have to do some tweaking until Apple officially supports it with BootCamp, but it works fine and even gives full Aero support. Some Google searching will show you plenty of sites with the tweaks needed to get Vista onto the MacBook.
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Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware, you might want to look at the MacBook Pro as they have a dedicated graphics controller. Hope that helps. Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware,... » Read More Will you be able to? Yes. Apple provides you with Boot Camp to allow you to install other OS's on the system. However, you might be stuck having a partition of the hard drive (partition meaning taking one harddrive and "sectioning" it into different slices that are viewed as different "virtual" drives) since Apple uses a different way of booting their system than standard PCs use. Also, you might not be able to use the "Arrow Glass" GUI features in Vista because of the embedded Intel graphics. If that's important to you, and you want to go with Apple hardware, you might want to look at the MacBook Pro as they have a dedicated graphics controller. Hope that helps. « Show Less
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Ten years ago Macs and the Mac OS were pretty bad compared to Windows and Intel machines. But Mac OS X now that it's settled down is really nice. Disks are so big now, maybe you can afford a corner for a Mac OS playground. :-)Check this 3/29/2007 article on BootCamp 1.2's support for Vista including Aero Glass, and Parallels and VMWare's software for running MacOS and Windows at the same time (VMWare with DirectX with XP):http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/011018.html
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Absolutely. I installed Windows 7 on a late 2009 iMac via boot camp. I am running Mountain Lion OS on my Mac by the way. Also, my Mac has a 2.66 ghz processor and 8 GB of RAM. Windows 7 runs flawlessly, buttery smooth and lightning fast. You will love it. My only regret is I should have made the partition larger. I only devoted 80 GB to Windows, I wish i had devoted 200 GB of my 1 terabyte drive. Also, when you get to the point of formatting the drive during installation when Windows starts, choose ADVANCED and format the partition in the NTSB format. Windows will only run in this format, NOT the default FAT format that boot camp creates. Absolutely. I installed Windows 7 on a late 2009 iMac via boot camp. I am running Mountain Lion OS on my Mac by the way. Also, my Mac has a 2.66 ghz processor and 8 GB of RAM. Windows 7 runs flawlessly, buttery smooth and lightning fast. You will love it. My only regret is I should have made the partition larger. I only devoted 80 GB to Windows, I wish i had devoted 200 GB of my 1 terabyte drive. Also, when you get to the point of formatting the drive during installation when Windows starts, choose ADVANCED and format the partition in the NTSB format. Windows will only run in this format,... » Read More Absolutely. I installed Windows 7 on a late 2009 iMac via boot camp. I am running Mountain Lion OS on my Mac by the way. Also, my Mac has a 2.66 ghz processor and 8 GB of RAM. Windows 7 runs flawlessly, buttery smooth and lightning fast. You will love it. My only regret is I should have made the partition larger. I only devoted 80 GB to Windows, I wish i had devoted 200 GB of my 1 terabyte drive. Also, when you get to the point of formatting the drive during installation when Windows starts, choose ADVANCED and format the partition in the NTSB format. Windows will only run in this format, NOT the default FAT format that boot camp creates. « Show Less
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I have been thinking about it but after reading everything I can find it doesn't appear to be anything I would tackle myself. The cost of hiring an expert and buying Windows 7 would come close to buying another computer. I am using this Windows 8 machine and hating it every minute. As soon as I can afford it I am trashing it and buying something else. The actual hardware seems good. It is just the operating system that is trash. I would not buy it. I would search for an older computer with Windows 7 on it. I have Windows 7 on my laptop and love it. I hope this helps. Charles
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This is a full version... The difference between this one and the boxed version is that there is no Microsoft customer support include. As for installing on your MAC, yes this version will work. You can use Bootcamp that came with your MAC to dual boot or purchase and install Parallels which will allow you to run it virtually inside of OSX.
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I would not recommend it. I tried Call of Duty on Vista Ultimate on a VMware Fusion partition and it would not run at all - even with an iMac 2.8 GHz and 4 GB of ram. I also tried some less video card intensive games - Age of Empires and Command and Conquer and they pretty much bombed out as well. I suspect it is the VMware video drivers as you can only use their Direct X in emulation. If you do Bootcamp and load up XP or Vista the games will probably run faster than on your PC - that was my ultimate solution. As I understand it Parallels has the same problems. Hope this helps.
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I've owned my MAC for 24 hours after using Windows for 24 years. Not much of a learning curve, which I'm happy to report! Don't be scared like I was...just dive into it. It's so nice to know it will never be obsolete like XP is about to be. Bill Gates, you should realize that people get mad when you discontinue a great OS like XP. Now I'll use a MAC forever.
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Thank you all for the replies. That really cleared most of my concern. Now I'm trying to decide between Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. I still prefer macbook air because of the weight (thanks for bringing up the heavy textbooks factor:). however if it turns out Windows software is necessary, i might be interested in a macbook that's easier to setup two os. From what I heard so far, macbook air would be a headache to do that because of the lack of DVD/CD rom. I still have a lot of time before making the final decision though. Thanks again for your inputs.
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Maybe it's not available any more but bought it (from Amazon) with Windows 7 as recently as May of this year (2013). Getting a Windows 7 machine while they were still available was definitely a factor for me in deciding to buy it then rather than later. By the time I need a new computer I figure either Windows 8 will have been either significantly improved or significantly improved. (I avoided Vista the same way, bought an XP machine late in the lifetime of XP, then my next one was Windows 7 which is almost as good as XP....)
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I run it on my Mac Air - but... I did have to add Bootcamp and windows to do it. So this was a mild hassle. When I start my computer I do have to change my OS when opening to start windows, but after that it runs just fine.
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Hi,I still have the packaging and it lists Windows Vista as a supported OS, it also lists Windows 7 (no mention of 32 or 64 bit) but I can confirm it works well with Windows 7 64-bit.Hope this helps you in taking the plunge.Listiel W.
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Every time a new operating system comes out, it requires a more powerful CPU and a lot more ram. It might run windows 7. I hate windows 8, and windows Vista was terrible. It will be slow with games. I do not really know. dshollismd
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Hello Curt,Seeing this version of Microsoft Flight Simulator is an "older" version, it should have no problem running on Windows Vista. It will also run on the now non-supported Windows XP platform. I am using Windows 8.1 and have had no problems with this program, with the exceptions mentioned in my review of this software. Happy Flying!! David W. Long
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You can have Windows on a Mac but you'll need to buy Windows and buy a program like VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Or you can do a little research for Wineskin it allows you to creat a wrapper around any windows program so it will run on Mac another one is winebottle I think. You can just check the website of the programs you want to see if they support Mac or just goggle Turbo Tax for Mac:)
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Yes. That is, Vista can run on the board. Don't see any reason it wouldn't.
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Yes but... It needs to be SP2 64bit and If you're running vista, you likely have an old graphics card. This needs a pretty good card. Read the specs before buying otherwise it won't run and most sellers don't accept returns on PC games.
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I have played in on Windows 8 no problem. I haven't had any games fail to run on Windows 8, for that matter; I think pretty much any game published after Vista came out runs fine on Windows 8.
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Yeah, like anybody would want to mess around with Vista. LOL Have fun with your XP (and yeah, like you said, it does come on one disk).