Installing windows on my MacBook Pro?

If these are heavy duty 3D games, your going to need to go the Bootcamp route, it's located in your Applications > Utilities folder and your going to need to follow the directions exactly. Your also going to need a copy of the full version of Windows 7. Perhaps Visa, but you don't want that, it's slow.

With Bootcamp your going to be direct booting the Mac directly into Windows or OS X, a real chore, but gives the best machine performance which 3D games require.

Now the other option, if these are simple sort of games, 2D and so forth, not heavy graphic using games like 3D ones that frames per second is super important. Is to install a virtual machine software like VMFusion or Parallels and run Windows in a window on OS X. The benefit to this is if Windows gets hosed, it's a simple matter to revert to a earlier saved version. Windows and everything in it is simply a file on OS X.

The virtual machine option avoids the constant rebooting, you can switch into Windows or OS X at a flick of a mouse. Copy files between them and everything. Not only that, you can download ISO's of various flavors of Linux and use them too!

This list of links makes it super easy to find the right Linux ISO (look at MacBuntu or Mint for the best)

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/help/guide/step2

Thing is your likely going to have to bump up your RAM, 2GB is fine, but Windows needs 2GB all to itself so that leaves little for OS X side and apps. Easy, just visit Crucial.com (wear Apple gets their RAM) and enter your machine for the exact type of RAM and simply install it yourself and reboot. Not hard at all. Bump up to at least 4GB or more for smooth running.

Linux can get away with less RAM, about 1GB usually, but prefers more. Why older PC's can run Linux and be of further use once Windows has bloated it's way off older hardware.

I know you got a dual core processor, so your set there. I run three or four operating systems on my dual core Mac at once, it's only slows down if I exceed my RAM, saves the extra to disk which is slower.

You really are a show off when you can run OS X, Windows and Linux all at the same time. :)

Just to let you know, you got to install the free Microsoft Security Essentials on the Windows side if using Bootcamp as you can't easily revert if you get pwned. You shouldn't be using Windows to trade files or use on the Internet to surf the web to try to keep it as pristine as possible. Use the Mac for that and not Safari it's always getting pwned year after year at contests (so is Chrome as it's also based on webkit), use Firefox instead.

On the virtual machine, if Windows gets hosed, just revert to a earlier version. I do that every time I update via Windows Update, so I'm always using a pristine system every time.

And also for your information and to tell all your friends (please spread the word!), SSD and flash drives are NOT being erased, even with the best software. see this

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/191121...

http://nvsl.ucsd.edu/sanitize/

good luck :)

Yes. I am typing this proper now on Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro Retina. I used the "Boot Camp" software which will have to be established in your Mac already. Just comply with the directions. You will desire a replica of Windows 7 to create an set up disc from, however Boot Camp Assistant will consultant you by way of that. There are a few moderate problems, all regarding drivers. For illustration, for those who use the trackpad, you're going to ought to utterly click on to click on as an alternative of simply tapping.

Your Macbook pro has an Nvidia 9600GT built in ( Windows uses the RAM and CPU (about 12-23%) while games really on the GPU (the 9600GT is the GPU-Graphics Processing Unit)

Here you can read all about the GPU in your laptop:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-...

Windows Aero uses only maybe half a percent out of one hundred, so you will have zero problems.