Mac book pro retina

Buy a MacBook Pro just to run Windows ? That's like buying a Ferrari and replacing the engine with one from a 1600 Toyota :wtf:

But, BootCamp is what you need if you want to run Windows natively. It's a fairly easy process. You can find it under "Utilities". Just partition your drive to whatever size you want the Windows partition to be, and install Windows as per normal. Make sure your Windows DVD is in the drive when you're in the Boot Camp config. Once installation is complete, you have the option of setting the startup disk to whatever OS you want to boot from. Select it, and Bob's your aunty.

You can also hold down the "option" key (Alt key) when you hear the "chime" upon turning on your Mac (before the logo appears) and you will then get a selection to boot from, ie. OS X or Windows. I have Windows installed via Boot Camp as well, because there are a few things I just prefer doing in Windows, and for my job, I need to have it.

Saying all that, as pointed out to you, you really should give OSX a chance first for a week or so. If you aren't convinced after that, then you still have Windows to fall back on ;)
 
Heh, such an innocent wandering into the pitfalls of this part of the jungle.. :rolleyes:. Okay, for as-close-to-native Windows, Boot Camp is the way. But shanezn you're mistaken about having the Windows DVD in the drive: there IS no (optical) drive on those Retina horrors. But, that said, there is a process one follows to get it all to work from a flash drive, ghostbuster should just make it easy on himself and bring an 8gig stick to the party.

But that's far from the end of it: he's then going to find out about just how horribly inconsistent Apple's Boot Camp Windows drivers are, and what that means in terms of toolbars and clicking on things ...but don't let that be any reason not to give it a whirl! :erm:
 
Wait & install Windows 8.1

Or scale the DPI all the way up.

Use a flash disk as said above to install Windows. Windows drivers are stable on Mac Book Air.

I went the same route myself :)
 
SYNERGY said:
Wait & install Windows 8.1 ... Windows drivers are stable on Mac Book Air.
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Might be interesting to see if things are better in 8.1 than 7. As to drivers and stability, that was never the issue; it was inconsistency of how certain apps behaved, SketchUp was one that made it too painful to keep, and I had to switch that rMBP back to Mac. Which, on balance, has worked out SO much easier to support!
 
bdt said:
Might be interesting to see if things are better in 8.1 than 7.
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Ran Win7 64 on my Air for over a year, and now Win8.1. Both were/are perfectly stable and brisk using latest Boot Camp 5.05033 driver pack.
 
bdt said:
Roman, it's not so much THAT you can do the Boot Camp thing and more that pesky ultra-res panel on the rMBP that causes the fun and games.
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Cant comment on the 15" with NVidia GPU, but based on my experience the Intel HD one the 13" should be perfectly stable.
 
bdt said:
But shanezn you're mistaken about having the Windows DVD in the drive: there IS no (optical) drive on those Retina horrors. But, that said, there is a process one follows to get it all to work from a flash drive, ghostbuster should just make it easy on himself and bring an 8gig stick to the party.
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My bad. I assumed he had an external DVD drive :)

This is a good place to start, if you need to make a bootable Win8 USB - http://joshcellsoftwares.com/products/winusbmaker/
You'd still need access to a Windows pc, and a Windows ISO to get this done though.
 
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