Imac 20 - Windows 7

[MDY]

A customer asks me to find him several Imac 20 2008 or 2009 and install Windows 7 on them. It is possible that? They are 100% compatible with Windows 7?

 

[dukefawks]

Use boot camp, but why?

 

[MDY]

No, without bootcamp. He need imac but Windows from windows programs. It is possible to install Windows directly?

 

[G.Beard]

No, without bootcamp. He need imac but Windows from windows programs. It is possible to install Windows directly?

There is a whole bunch of guides if you Google it but the customer request is curiously odd. Personally I would just say sorry it's not something that I would do.

 

[Sykulski]

I've also got a bunch of customers who wants to run windows on their macs. I usually just use boot camp and keep the OSX partition relatively small and set it to boot from windows as the standard start disk. Then I always got the Mac OS available for trouble shooting when they have issues. They loose about 30GB hard drive capacity but that's the trade-off.

The 20-inch 2008-2009 iMacs only support 32 bit Windows 7.

 

[MDY]

I read a lot of titorials and I did it with 2 Imac 2009 and Windows was installed ok, but on iMAC 2010 i3 I cannot do it.
Error I have is; Boot device not found. It is possible that on 2010 i3 there are something more I should do?

 

[dukefawks]

Use boot camp, case closed.