I’ve been using the Windows7 Beta for a while, I think I mentioned it before, and I really am enjoying it. This might sound strange, seeing as I recently bought a Mac, I love Mac OSX, and this Macbook is just so awesome, I think I’m gonna be a Mac fan for a long time.
There are just some things though, that the Mac doesn’t do so well. I think so far, I’ve spent over 5 hours trying to get Warcraft3 Frozen Throne working in MacOSX, but it isn’t happening. You can’t exactly run Microsoft Visual Studio.NET on MacOS either.
Basically, the solution was to install Windows7 on my Macbook using Bootcamp. Quite an effortless affair, I must say. Apple’s really done their homework on getting Windows installed on their hardware.
Problem was, I couldn’t install the Bootcamp drivers once I’d booted into Windows7. Kept on giving some inane error about a file missing.
So, I copied the Bootcamp driver install files onto the Windows7 hdd. Easy enough, but now when I run the installer, it says something like “Bootcamp drivers can only be installed on Windows XP or Vista.”
Solution: Right click on the Bootcamp Drivers installer file > Select Compatibility Mode > Windows Vista.
Voila, works like a dream. I can now control volume and brightness in Windows7 like I could in Mac OSX.
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