Now I don’t want to sell the Mac as I love the look and build quality, and in all honesty I will still use OSx for the iPhone Development that I’m doing. So I decided to install XP via Boot Camp.

Now after using xp for a while I decided it was way to old, and grabbed Windows 7 from my Desktop PC. I’ve now installed this upon the MacBook and it run faster than than my PC which is spec’d the same as my Macbook!

Just incase Windows 7 doesnt run fast upon your Macbook it might be due to my MacBook Spec not being the standard run of the mill entry level. I have a 2.4Ghz, 4Gig of 800Mhz Ram and a 250Gig Harddrive inside my Macbook and this might help with the performance of Windows 7.

So this what I did to install 64 Bit Windows 7 even though Boot Camp told me 64bit wasn’t supported for the Macbook.

1. Load up Snow Leopard (Or Leopard if thats your OS)
2. Run Boot Camp (Im running verison 3.1)
3. Follow the wizard and insert your 64bit Windows 7 CD.
4. Macbook restarts, and will boot up the CD, (Press any key to boot from CD/DVD….)
5. Install Windows upon the Boot Camp Partition that you made in the previous wizard.
6. Follow the Windows 7 installer, (should take about an hour to install Windows)
7. Boot into Windows and setup the Wifi etc, Disable Windows updates as Im not positive that these will work correctly upon a MacBook. (I wanted to play it safe)
8. Once installed you need to install the MacBook drivers, although most things will already work. This is the step that will initally give you an issue. The MacBook wasnt supposed to run a 64Bit Windows OS and this means you cant install the software easily. So we have to do the following.
9. Insert the Snow Leopard (Or Leopard) DVD, and explore the DVD to the run the following installer.
(CDRom Drive):\Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp64.msi
10. Follow the instsller, and it should ask you to restart after.

That should be it and all should run fine. Unless your sound isnt working, (Apple have a cool way of telling if your sound isn’t working, Look down the whole of the Headphone Jack if you see a red light, then you have a sound issue), If this is the case, follow the next few steps.

1. Navigate to the Apple DVD again, and run (CDRom Drive):\Boot Camp\Drivers\RealTekSetup.exe
2. Now once installed you need to restart, and you should now have working sound, If you don’t have sound or you got an error upon insrall you you need to do the following.

1. Right click the (CDRom Drive):\Boot Camp\Drivers\RealTekSetup.exe and select “Troubleshoot compatability”
2. Click “Troubleshoot Program” and wait for it to detect the issues.
3. Select “this program worked on an earlier version of Windows, but won’t install or display correctly now” (Top option)
4. Select Windows Vista or Windows XP (I chose Vista, Not SP1 or SP2, just “Vista”)
5. Now wait for it to finish “resolving issues”, the installer will start. This time it will won’t fail!

Once this is done, the Macbook will need another restart, After that you won’t have a red light in the headphone jack port and you will successfully have sound!

I hope this helps user also having issues with Macbooks and Windows.

Edit: If you want to know how to Print Screen but for obivous reason cant find the PrintScr Button on your macbook laptop then try this: Shift + Fn + F11
This will copy the screen to click board for use in Photoshop or Paint etc.