Moving across the trackpad with a single finger moves the mouse cursor as you’d expect. The MacBook has a large multi-touch track pad and Apple have allowed some of the multi-touch functionality to be used in Windows. Using the MacBook Pro track pad for Windows 7 And once I’ve submitted my user details it takes another 15 seconds for the desktop to be fully loaded (with all the taskbar icons in place and for the mouse cursor to be idle). On choosing Windows 7 it then takes my month old install of Windows 7 48 seconds to reach the login screen. If you hold down the ‘alt’ key when you turn it on you will get boot selection screen in about 10 seconds that will allow you to choose to boot from either the Mac OS X partition or the Windows 7 partition. Booting up Windows 7īy default the MacBook will boot into Mac OS X. And if you want a writable shared partition I’ve written up my own instructions for how to add a third shared writable partition to your MacBook hard drive. On a previous post I’ve put links to the Boot Camp install instructions. Installing and setting up Windows 7 using Boot Camp is simple and takes less than an hour (most of that time is take by Windows 7 installing and setting itself up). I installed the 32 bit edition of Windows 7 rather than the 64 bit version on the assumption that more 3rd party software and drivers would be compatible with the 32 bit version. Some parts of this review would be applicable for running Windows 7 on any Mac, but other parts may be specific to the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is one of the 2.4GHz models with 4GB of RAM. This only affects Windows 11 Home – Windows 11 Pro will continue to allow offline setup.I’m going to review what it is like to use Windows 7 Home Premium on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. For people who don’t want a Microsoft Account, this could also prove annoying, but at least they are free. If you live in an area with poor internet connectivity, for example, then this could cause problems. While Microsoft claims this will help Windows 11 Home be a more connected operating system which is better customised to your interests, and you’ll only need to be connected to the internet during the initial setup, this will still be concerning for some people. They will also need to have a Microsoft Account – local accounts won’t be accepted. Internet connection requiredĪnother big change is that Windows 11 Home users will need to be connected to the internet when they first set up their device. However, this probably won’t be too much comfort for people using 32-bit hardware, who will now have to completely upgrade their gadgets to get Windows 11. By being 64-bit only, Windows 11 can be more ambitious and not held back by catering for 32-bit systems.
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