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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1214249" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Boot Camp is included with all new Mac machines. It's merely a tool which prepares and sets up a partition so that Windows can be installed. The actual installation is done through the Windows DVD once the partition is prepared and ready. Boot Camp only works with MS boxed or OEM system builders genuine full install versions of Windows XP SP2 and above - including Vista and Win 7. It does not work to install Ubuntu or any other operating system.</p><p></p><p>You may get conflicting advice on that but what I said above is from Apple.</p><p>Also avoid downloading any boot managers or boot devices such as rEFIt mentioned in another post until after you get Windows 7 installed. As I mentioned before, chances are you will not need Ubuntu once you run Mac OS X.</p><p></p><p>I ran Ubuntu for years on my Win machines in dual boot config - always playing around with various boot loaders and what not. Never looked back when I switched to OS X.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1214249, member: 46727"] Boot Camp is included with all new Mac machines. It's merely a tool which prepares and sets up a partition so that Windows can be installed. The actual installation is done through the Windows DVD once the partition is prepared and ready. Boot Camp only works with MS boxed or OEM system builders genuine full install versions of Windows XP SP2 and above - including Vista and Win 7. It does not work to install Ubuntu or any other operating system. You may get conflicting advice on that but what I said above is from Apple. Also avoid downloading any boot managers or boot devices such as rEFIt mentioned in another post until after you get Windows 7 installed. As I mentioned before, chances are you will not need Ubuntu once you run Mac OS X. I ran Ubuntu for years on my Win machines in dual boot config - always playing around with various boot loaders and what not. Never looked back when I switched to OS X. [/QUOTE]
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