Bootcamp Drops Support for Windows XP and Vista on New MacBooks

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Posted February 27, 2011 at 12:11pm by iClarified

Bootcamp no longer offers support for Windows XP and Vista on the new MacBooks just released last week, according to ZDNet.

An Apple support documents says,

MacBook Air (Late 2010) and MacBook Pro (Early 2011) computers support 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, or Windows 7 Ultimate.

Note: Windows XP and Vista drivers are not supplied for these computers and are not supported.

To use Boot Camp with with Windows 7, you need the following:
● An optical drive (MacBook Air computers require an external optical disc drive to install Windows 7).
● A blank CD or USB storage device to contain the Windows Drivers created by the Boot Camp Assistant.
● For 32-bit versions of Windows, at least 16 GB of free space.
● For 64-bit versions of Windows, at least 20 GB of free space.
● Boot Camp Assistant, which is pre-installed in /Applications/Utilities/ .
● An authentic, 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate disc.

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teraflow - February 27, 2011 at 3:15pm

To anyone complaining about this: think for a moment, Apple sells its own computers (MacBooks, iMac...) and they sell it with Mac OS, which is their own OS. If they have to make drivers to every goddamn OS in order to support running them, they are losing millions of $$$, plus XP an Vista are discontinued. If you need Windows, buy a laptop.

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Andrew - February 27, 2011 at 6:42pm

Fanboy... NTFS support!

Neerav Kothari - February 28, 2011 at 12:35am

they earn many millions more simply because macs can also run windows. thats whats make mac usable everywhere, even at work. if they were to only loose rather than gain, they wouldn't support windows at the first place. if my MacBook were incapable of running windows, i would had never bought it. u can practically do without os x, but not without windows simply because of every other machine out there (95%) is a windows machine. Am an Apple fanatic too. but reality is reality. Neerav PS: i think the new macbooks can't run vista and xp cause MS must not have licensed Apple to support it anymore. I'm sure people will find a work around.

teraflow - February 28, 2011 at 6:14am

Again: XP and Vista are discontinued, which means they will not be updated anymore and no one will give support for them. This means Apple will not only have to make the drivers, but also will have to deal with problem, issues and more, when it's a Microsoft problem.

Neerav Kothari - February 28, 2011 at 6:36am

duh!!! now where did that come from? there are hoards of manufacturers making drivers for xp and vista that work! apple has ALREADY made drivers for xp and vista that work. atleast it could had bundled those if not improve on it. this is ridiculous. just because we like apple doesn't mean some of us have to defend every wrong that it does!

Rod - February 27, 2011 at 1:39pm

That sucks. Unless it means that they will be supporting NTFS drives. Right now the only reason I use xp on my bootcamp so I can have it fat32 so I can read and write to my bootcamp partition while in OSX. Are they adding NTFS Support?

Boywonda - February 27, 2011 at 1:52pm

I use something call MacFUSE, or something like that. I googled how to write, save, etc to a NTFS drive from Mac and it gave me two download links. Installed and it works perfectly

Andrew - February 27, 2011 at 12:26pm

That's stupid... XP is still defacto OS in my studios which is what I use my MacBook in/at.

SuperTiti - February 27, 2011 at 12:32pm

That's totally crazy indeed ! Even Apple forces to buy new Microsoft products ! O_0

Neerav Kothari - February 28, 2011 at 12:40am

I think this is something about license issues. its one of MSe's passive aggressive strategies to force users to move to windows 7. there is no reason why apple would force people to move to 7. infact, that would decrease its user base because many people still prefer xp over the later 2. infact, only ones i know having 7 are the ones that have it pre bundled in their machines.