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You all make such good references.

I have a case with a psu in it as well as a 24" monitor to go with my new build but the iMac itself is just so deliciously packaged. I was pondering if I should wait for the next revisions to make the Lynnfield 860 standardized on the $2000 model. I'm too power hungry for my own good at times because I deal with HD video encoding and movie making and I really love iMovie I messed with it a few times here and there. If Sandy Bridge makes it to the iMac by the end of this year I'll snag one and grab a Display port to DVI adapter for my ASUS monitor.

One could say build a hackintosh but I'd feel a huge burden on my conscience if you know what I mean :laugh:

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problems?

such as?

my 24" has 7 x64 and zero driver problems, in fact this is the best machine I have ever had any verion of Windows running on

I have the i5 Quad Core with 4850, installed the Apple disc driver for all drivers. Having serious problems with what seems to be the audio driver, also causing crashes for my graphic card and wireless network.

Do you have a different setup or did you ditch the Apple disc going with windows update for drivers?

* NVM the 24" is the old model. Maybe someone else has an answer though.

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I installed parallels and bootcamp on my parent's imac, both running fine, but with limitations.

Drivers are good for small tasks (email, youtube, camera (with some exceptions) and the like). For gaming, i know for a fact new games do not work (ie Dirt, dirt2 and the like). so for small games, it will work, but otherwise say Mass Effect 2, forget about it.

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I tried to do bootcamp last night, and have an issue -after installing, expanding files (which took FOREVER) and restarting... it boots into a blackscreen that just hangs... left it for over an hour with no result.

Repeated process 2-3 times to same result.

Win7 64bit

(It installs under parallels fine, no issues at all) I'm going to try redownloading the 7 ISO and seeing if i got a bad burn (i forgot to check it's md5 with the one on technet)

any advice?

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Windows 7 isn't officially supported by Boot Camp - only XP and Vista are supported so far, but Windows 7 should install without any problems if I'm honest, even in Boot Camps current form.

Perhaps it's a bad burn. Verify it next time. :3

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I don't see the point for a bootcamp partition on my mac. I don't think there's anything I need to do that requires Windows, on the other hand lots of stuff I do requires OSX

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I'm a .net coder as a profession... and my CS3 suite key is windows based.

Also? my $300~ worth of steam games makes me hesitatnt to walk away from windows as a OS entirly.

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I'm a .net coder as a profession... and my CS3 suite key is windows based.

Also? my $300~ worth of steam games makes me hesitatnt to walk away from windows as a OS entirly.

If you're responding to my comment I'll highling a little something for you (if your not then sorry :p)

I don't see the point for a bootcamp partition on my mac. I don't think there's anything I need to do that requires Windows, on the other hand lots of stuff I do requires OSX
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well, just explaining why i need parallels, and bootcamp, not specifically your post, just stopping people from suggesting i walk away from windows because bootcamp won't work :-P

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I have a free XP and Vista license. Might give Boot Camp a whirl if my gaming laptop ever fails. :p

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