thats great


unfortunate Im being told that since I have a Mac Pro 2,1 it may not or will not work.

I assume then your mac is one that was said to run 64?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846

All the recent Macs (Core 2 Duo and above) will run 64 bit operating systems. What is your processor? Snow Leopard and its Bootcamp 3.0 are necessary. Bootcamp 2.1 has problems and, I believe, may not support 64 bit.

2x quad core


i guess i should just test it and see...i will use winclone to backup my vista 32bit and partion into 2 drives so i can (hopefully) have both 32 and 63 win/vegas

as far as vegas is concerned, can i just use the 64 but vista i have or is there some reason to buy the w7 64 bit?

My recent experiences with boot camp and win7 are that you may have to dig up drivers for some things. They are out there but in my recent case I installed win7 on a macbook and had to "trick" install some drivers using win7 compatibility troubleshooting. I also had to get video drivers from nvidia as the provided driver only gave basic graphics (no slick glass ui).

This kind of thing will stop most mac users in their tracks but it wasn't a big deal to figure out and works without a hitch once installed.

"his kind of thing will stop most mac users in their tracks"


exactly...I understand that i order to install 64 on my mac I have to make a special install disk...not worth the time....I will just by the new mac Q1 2010

Works fine for me!

I also have the 2 x quad Xeon Mac Pro - and when I installed Windows 7 64 bit on it I just did it directly from the ISO-DVD without using BootCamp at all.
This is possible as Windows 7 supports the "new Bios" EFI installed in the Mac Pro.

The drivers? all I needed I just found on the driver-download-pages of the hardware suppliers.
Some of the hardware must be uninstalled (in the Hardware Device Manager) after the first Win 7 installation and then reinstalled with the proper drivers as it seems that the drivers supplied on-line by the Win 7 installation are not the right ones.

The machine works excellently. When I throw a handfull of rendering jobs on it all 8 CPU's hum along at 100% CPU usage - and I can still work without really noticing that the machine is so heavily loaded (got 8 GB RAM).

Pls. note, however, that only Win 7 pro and ultimate supports the 2 physical processors. I found out the hard way :-))))

Edit: Ah, and yes, I use Vegas Pro 9.0c 32 bit because of the plugins etc - but I do not note any limitations.

"also have the 2 x quad Xeon Mac Pro"

you mean the version 2,1 ?

"when I installed Windows 7 64 bit on it I just did it directly from the ISO-DVD without using BootCamp at all.

so you just started with a FAT32 partition you made using Disk Utility?

and then you inserted the retail disk and rebooted from that disk (or do I have to get something like imgburn)?



"The drivers? all I needed I just found on the driver-download-pages of the hardware suppliers."

So after you installed W7 "the process" reboots into the new OS or you booted into it after installing?

I thought the fist thing you do once booting into the new windows os is insert the mac dvd and install the mac supplied drivers....no?

are you talking Leopard or Snow Leopard ?

I think 2.1 is the number of the current Bootcamp? my machine is the model having 2 x Xeox quads running at 2,8 GHz.

No, the disk drive was formatted already - but if it were not - Win 7 could have done it - as far as I remember.

Yes - DVD in, boot and enjoy (maybe you need to hold the key down on the keybord to make the machine boot from DVD - do not remember which, however - it is a Mac thing.)
I did have to change to the Mac original USB keyboard for this.

Drivers? yes, the Win 7 installation goes on-line to Microsoft and gets some drivers - not all the right ones, however :-) but you can improve this later.

What you suggest is part of the boot camp procedure - but - right- there are some drivers on that disk also - but you can do without them.

Leopard or Snow L - well on my Mac Pro I got Win 7 up and running without any Mac disks.
BUT on my Mac Mini (Core 2 duo) I could not install the Win 7 directly (I worked and cursed a whole day) and then I installed Leopard - and as soon as it was up and had updated itself with the latest updates I let it start the Win 7 installation DVD (it is somewhere in the Leopard utilities) - and now that machine boots beautifully directly in Win 7 every time - as wanted.
But it was not easy and had some trial and error situations as i.e. "How to set up a harddisk" in order to boot Windows directly included some fancy words/settings that I did not know about.