Snow Leopard & Windows Vista

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Snow Leopard & Windows Vista

Hi,

i have an early version of imac(but still intel chip).

i want to upgrade my os to snow leopard. but i do not know if the "boot camp" that comes with snow leopard will support windows vista(thinking about dual boot).

thanks.

iMac(intel), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 11, 2010 9:04 AM

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Answer 1

Fortuny

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Mar 11, 2010 9:14 PM in response to JhnD

Hi,

have a look here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3777

BootCamp 3.0 (included in Snlow Leopard) does support installation of Vista, but your iMac is most likely to old to run a 64-bit version of Vista.

Hope it helps

Stefan

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Answer 2

Mar 13, 2010 4:01 PM in response to JhnD

JhnD, I have a late 06 Intel iMac (1Gb Ram 250 Gb Hrd Drive). According to the info I have been able to find, this model of iMac will not work with Snow Leopard, BootCamp & Windows 7. However, having made sure my software was up-to-date, firmware etc, I was able to successfully partition and then run windows via BootCamp. Snow Leopard 10.6.2, BootCamp 3.1, and Windows7. Hope this helps. Good Luck.

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JhnD Author

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Mar 14, 2010 1:48 AM in response to Fortuny

o old to run a 64-bit version of Vista.

Why 64 bit? i thought most of our mac are 32bit

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Fortuny

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Mar 14, 2010 10:41 PM in response to JhnD

JhnD wrote:

o old to run a 64-bit version of Vista.

Why 64 bit? i thought most of our mac are 32bit

Depends. If your Mac has an Intel Core Duo processor (the very first Macs from early 2006) than that processor does only support 32-bit Windows.
If it's a later 2006 model or even younger which uses the Core 2 Duo processor, that processor is 64-bit capable.

And OSX is a mixed 32-bit/64-bit operating system on Intel Macs since version 10.4 Tiger.

Stefan

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JhnD Author

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Mar 17, 2010 5:39 PM in response to Fortuny

thx.

btw, how do one update the "firmware"?

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Fortuny

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Mar 17, 2010 10:09 PM in response to JhnD

JhnD wrote:
thx.

btw, how do one update the "firmware"?

have a look here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1557

Stefan

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JhnD Author

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Mar 18, 2010 12:56 PM in response to Fortuny

so X is capable of 32 or 64 bit.

it all depends on the hardware(computer) is whether 32 or 64 bit.

but has apple shipped 64 bit machines?

thanks.

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Answer 8

Fortuny

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Mar 18, 2010 9:49 PM in response to JhnD

All Macs that use the Intel Core 2 Duo processor are 64-bit machines.

Plus of course all Mac Pros using the Intel Xeon processors are 64-bit machines.

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JhnD Author

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Apr 1, 2010 4:29 PM in response to Fortuny

Hi,

Are the 32/64 bit compateble machiens entirely archetectured 64 bit?

Or only the CPU is 64Bit.

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Answer 10

Fortuny

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Apr 1, 2010 10:15 PM in response to JhnD

JhnD wrote:
Hi,

Are the 32/64 bit compateble machiens entirely archetectured 64 bit?

Yes.

Or only the CPU is 64Bit.

No.

Stefan

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Answer 11

Apr 12, 2010 11:49 AM in response to JhnD

I have windows vista, I checked with the compatibility of it and the new itunes------it is isn't compatible. The only way to have itunes now with vista is by having the older 8. something. Ever since the update to 9. something mine hasn't worked. Even the web site shuts down. I can only go the the site by using Mozilla Firefox.

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