BDillon

I have a Macbook Pro with the below specs. I have been gaming on it lately and it runs games pretty well but I am wondering if I will see any significant performance boost by upgrading from Windows XP to Vista or this Windows 7 i've been hearing about.

XP Only supports 3gb ram... and I guess i'd have to check into whether or not Vista can be loaded onto my mbp but that shouldn't be hard

Macbook Pro Specs
2.8ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4gb RAM (1066ghz i believe)
9600GT

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nathris

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../download.aspx

Download the 64-bit version, it should run like a charm, and while you're at it buy the upgrade while its still $50

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BDillon

ok will most games and programs (steam, xfire, etc) run on windows 7?

I am not sure if this is going to work on my mac because of the apple software drivers that i have to download through bootcamp. I'll have to do some research and see but i highly doubt windows 7 is supported yet!The OS will probably work, though... I may just have trouble finding the right chipset drivers and a lot of the mac keyboard features will be unavailable.

Does that sound about right?

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nathris

Windows 7 does a surprising amount of the work by itself. I'm running it and the only driver I had to install was my sound card.

See if this article helps:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...-a-macbook.ars

Once it ships though I'm sure it will work wonderfully on a mac book, since it has built in multitouch support already. Microsoft is just a software company, they don't really care about how you run Windows, only that you do, so optimizing Windows 7 to run on Macbooks is definitely a good thing.



As for games, I've had no real issues. If you're running the game for the first time it may get a little wonky but once you set the resolution right I find it even runs better than Vista.

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cccccc

win 7 FTW.