I have a Mac and a PC side by side on my desktop. In a multi-platform world, being able to switch back and forth between the two platforms is a crucial part of what I do. For some comparisons, I find ...

Many have been waiting for official support from Apple before installing Windows 7 on their Macs, and the recent updates may not be as straightforward as updating Boot Camp and installing Windows 7.

If you've been waiting with bated breath to dual-boot Windows 7 on your Mac, your time has come. File under "better late than never": Apple has now updated Boot Camp with support for Windows 7. If you ...

If you own a MacBook Pro chances are pretty good that you’ve investigated something like the OptiBay which lets you replace your optical drive with a second hard disk. After I did a review of the ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

Apple's latest Boot Camp 4 that ships with Lion requires Windows 7, but there are some methods for retaining older Windows XP and Vista partitions on systems running Lion. Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

The USB flash drive has replaced the floppy disk drive as the best storage medium for transferring files, but it also has its uses as a replacement for CDs and DVDs. USB drives tend to be higher in ...

I got my technet subscription of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and have promptly installed it on my MacBook. I have not followed Apple's recommended procedure, as I had a previous partition setup with Vista ...

This article was excerpted from Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth with permission of Que Publishing, copyright 2010, all rights reserved. It covers a new installation of ...