I don't know if my recent experience is typical or not, but here it is. I wanted to establish a Boot Camp partition for Windows 7 and some flight sims. The Mac (Utilities/boot camp assistant) set up the partition in about 3 minutes. No problem at all. It then took me 10 1/2 hours to install Windows 7 and Microsoft Flight Simulator X. There were 76 updates required for a brand new copy of Windows 7. The "automatic" update process failed 5 times and had to be restarted. FSX failed to install the first time and had to be redone. And then, just add insult to injury, when I was finished installing, I couldn't find a launch icon for FSX anywhere. I had to Google search it to find out that it was buried in a subdirectory of Programs 86, whatever that is. All in all it was a lousy experience. I wouldn't do it again.