Windows 7 on MacBook Pro..

Ok.. I haven’t been following up much with the crowd on Windows 7 stuff.

But listening to Scott talking about Windows 7 made me give a shot at it. Yes, even after he called himself a Schill, i wanted to try

Having the VMWare Fusion installed made it much simpler to try this out. After downloading the RC 7 (build 7100) tried to make a new VM with it.

For some reason, the Fusion thought i am installing Vista 64 bit and not Windows 7. But i am sure they’ll catch up with that soon!

Before installing Fusion, i had a bootcamp partition with XP on it.  Even though i am happy with Fusion, i still wanted to keep the Bootcamp partition. Well, the only itching point was i had to reboot the machine everytime i wanted to run Visual Studio. But i am OK with that. Somehow i thought , that way, XP has all the resources and processor power just for XP. So thats why even XP feels sooo much better on MacBook Pro!

Then i came across, Jeff Atwood’s blog entry on Virtual Machine – The Single Most Important Virtual Machine Performance Tip. He’s so right! But its a shame i cant fix another hard disk in MBP, or i dont know yet. So i’ll stick with bootcamp for now!

Another thing i missed when i am bootcamped is my iTunes collection. But Fusion lets you share whenever you create your VM with it. Now i am happy listening iTunes from Windows 7. Will share more experiences soon..

Here’s my current settings with Vista x64..errr.. Windows 7