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<blockquote data-quote="XJ-linux" data-source="post: 899479" data-attributes="member: 33722"><p>I installed the retail version of Win7 (via MSDN) on my Rev B MBA 1.86Ghz/128SSD. I was NOT happy. Via Parallels it ran the fans constantly and was quite slow. Frame rates for video were way off, even when dedicating 1CPU core, 1GB of 1067 Mhz RAM, and 128MB of VRAM to the Win7 VM. I removed Win7 and installed a WinXPSP3 VM with the same settings. I use to use the XP VM until a month ago. It ran just fine - no fans, video was fine, performance was snappy. I'm assuming Parallels v5 will have better Win7 drivers. It's still odd, since the drivers in Parallels are essentially for Vista, and Win7 is essentially Vista. Anyhow, both WinXP and Win7 seem to run fine via Parallels on a Late 2008 MBP 2.53Ghz. I know you are running via Bootcamp, but I wanted to throw that out there.</p><p>-Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="XJ-linux, post: 899479, member: 33722"] I installed the retail version of Win7 (via MSDN) on my Rev B MBA 1.86Ghz/128SSD. I was NOT happy. Via Parallels it ran the fans constantly and was quite slow. Frame rates for video were way off, even when dedicating 1CPU core, 1GB of 1067 Mhz RAM, and 128MB of VRAM to the Win7 VM. I removed Win7 and installed a WinXPSP3 VM with the same settings. I use to use the XP VM until a month ago. It ran just fine - no fans, video was fine, performance was snappy. I'm assuming Parallels v5 will have better Win7 drivers. It's still odd, since the drivers in Parallels are essentially for Vista, and Win7 is essentially Vista. Anyhow, both WinXP and Win7 seem to run fine via Parallels on a Late 2008 MBP 2.53Ghz. I know you are running via Bootcamp, but I wanted to throw that out there. -Dave [/QUOTE]
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