Hi everybody,
Let me start off by saying I'm a windows user - I hope noone will throw hard stuff at me now ;-)
The thing is, I have been offered an iMac 24" at a VERY reasonable price. However, I don't have, at the moment, any intentions of switching my OS to Leopard... for me, this would be buying a really nice piece of hardware - but staying on the Windows platform (since I simply don't have the money to change all my software licenses, nor any inclination to teac my GF a new OS ;-)
I have searched around abit, and I can see it is entirely possible, and rather easy, to run Windows 7 on such an iMac. I do have some questions though, that I am having some problems to find answers to. I guess this is largely because Win7 has not been released yet and Bootcamp 3.0 is not officially supporting it yet. I hope someone here can give me some definitive answers (preferably, without suggestions or flames about reasons for and against one or the other - just looking for hard facts )
I am hardpressed to find any model number for this iMac - but the specs are as follows:
+ Intel Core Duo 2 - 3.06GHz
+ 6 MB L2-buffer / 1066 MHz frontside-bus
+ NVIDIA GeForce GT 130
+ 4 GB 1.066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
+ 1 TB HDD
Here goes:
- How's the performance? Since the Win7 will be running natively, and have exclusive access to the hardware, will it perform just as well as a similar equipped PC ?
- As far as I can tell, only driver issues I may come accross is sound support, which is solved easily - all other drivers will work and perform well ?
- Will the "PC" be supporting DirectX 10 fully ?
- How much Ram is on that GPU ?
- I do game alot besides my normal work (Photographer), how will this graphics adapter perform in 3D games, like Everquest and the likes ?
- I am assuming all my USB hardware will just work (Digitizers, keyboard etc.) Correct?
- I am assuming this iMac, once booted into Windows 7, will be a fullblooded PC in every imaginable way - except for looking just plain awesome of course Correct ?
- I am assuming I am cutting myself off from any hardware upgrades, like a better Graphics card or CPU in 1 year when it's too old from my taste - Correct ?
- Will this iMac be able to run Windows 7 64bit and obtain the advantages from that ?
- Any compability / performance issues in general I will/may stumble upon ?
I hope there's a few patient and tech savy guys inhere, that can answer my questions - thanks alot in advance!
/Rune
Let me start off by saying I'm a windows user - I hope noone will throw hard stuff at me now ;-)
The thing is, I have been offered an iMac 24" at a VERY reasonable price. However, I don't have, at the moment, any intentions of switching my OS to Leopard... for me, this would be buying a really nice piece of hardware - but staying on the Windows platform (since I simply don't have the money to change all my software licenses, nor any inclination to teac my GF a new OS ;-)
I have searched around abit, and I can see it is entirely possible, and rather easy, to run Windows 7 on such an iMac. I do have some questions though, that I am having some problems to find answers to. I guess this is largely because Win7 has not been released yet and Bootcamp 3.0 is not officially supporting it yet. I hope someone here can give me some definitive answers (preferably, without suggestions or flames about reasons for and against one or the other - just looking for hard facts )
I am hardpressed to find any model number for this iMac - but the specs are as follows:
+ Intel Core Duo 2 - 3.06GHz
+ 6 MB L2-buffer / 1066 MHz frontside-bus
+ NVIDIA GeForce GT 130
+ 4 GB 1.066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
+ 1 TB HDD
Here goes:
- How's the performance? Since the Win7 will be running natively, and have exclusive access to the hardware, will it perform just as well as a similar equipped PC ?
- As far as I can tell, only driver issues I may come accross is sound support, which is solved easily - all other drivers will work and perform well ?
- Will the "PC" be supporting DirectX 10 fully ?
- How much Ram is on that GPU ?
- I do game alot besides my normal work (Photographer), how will this graphics adapter perform in 3D games, like Everquest and the likes ?
- I am assuming all my USB hardware will just work (Digitizers, keyboard etc.) Correct?
- I am assuming this iMac, once booted into Windows 7, will be a fullblooded PC in every imaginable way - except for looking just plain awesome of course Correct ?
- I am assuming I am cutting myself off from any hardware upgrades, like a better Graphics card or CPU in 1 year when it's too old from my taste - Correct ?
- Will this iMac be able to run Windows 7 64bit and obtain the advantages from that ?
- Any compability / performance issues in general I will/may stumble upon ?
I hope there's a few patient and tech savy guys inhere, that can answer my questions - thanks alot in advance!
/Rune