Has anyone tried Win 7_64 bit on a Late 2008 MacBook Alum, with 2.4Ghz and 4G ram?

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Has anyone tried Win 7_64 bit on a Late 2008 MacBook Alum, with 2.4Ghz and 4G ram?

I'm running Win XP Pro 64 with Boot Camp 4, with drivers I found (Apple didn't/doesn't support XP 64 bit, but I needed it for a program I was running). WiFi doesn't work, but ethernet into Airport Express gets me on the LAN/web. I'd like to upgrade to Win 7_64 bit, and Apple has those drivers (at least for newer computers?).

The other part of this question i: I will upgrade to Mountain Lion, but am I going to loose the Windows partition due to incompatibilities with BootCamp 4, etc?

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8), moving to Mountain Lion

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 2:26 PM

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Kappy

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Sep 17, 2013 2:31 PM in response to montereyarchitect

Boot Camp- Macs that work with 64-bit editions of Windows 7/Vista

No, you don't lose the partition.

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Sep 17, 2013 6:22 PM in response to Kappy

Thanks for the input on the partition and the link Kappy. I saw that page, too, before I asked the question. My MacBook runs XP Pro-64 just fine, but it's not shown on that page as working with anything but 32 bit versions of Windows, and Boot Camp 4.

I'm hoping someone out there has installed Win7-64 on a late 2008 Aluminum MacBook 2.4Ghz, and can tell me if it works or not, and if the Apple-supplied drivers work, too.

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