Apple announces complete MacBook refresh, thinner 'Retina' MacBook Pro

[slh28]

I haven't needed to, as a bunch of my friends have had problems with their Windows 7 installations on their macbooks. One of them even bought it just to use Windows 7 and he is regretting the waste of money. My friends and I with non-apple pc's have had it just fine.
Not like I would believe that apple would make perfect drivers for their competitors OS anyways...

Maybe you should gain some first hand experience before bashing things...
I don't know how your friends are setting up Windows 7 but I dual boot using Bootcamp and it runs absolutely fine. The drivers are all packaged together so it's not like you have to find and download stuff individually.

 

[Micro Watt]

Yeah, but the drivers apple made for it are a joke

Have you actually used Windows 7 on a Macbook?

I haven't needed to, as a bunch of my friends have had problems with their Windows 7 installations on their macbooks. One of them even bought it just to use Windows 7 and he is regretting the waste of money. My friends and I with non-apple pc's have had it just fine.
Not like I would believe that apple would make perfect drivers for their competitors OS anyways...

Well just being hypothetical:
The next version of Mac OSX is apperently going to go on for sale at around just $20.
At this price, I would imagine that apple would put the effort to make good windows driver's in order to sell the machine (to windows fan's) and lose a little revenue in term's of the Apple OS than to make bad windows drivers and driving away a "windows fan" who likes the machine for its specs. I imagine the profit margin on the Machine itself would be much higher than the profit margin on the Mac OS.

If we take the Windows Fan Demographic: Apple has a better chance of selling the Mac OS to them if they buy the machine thinking they are going to install windows, than if they don't buy at all.

This is all hypothetical though, and I've never used windows on an Apple Machine so I don't know what the technical experience is...

 

[yukka]

My technical experience is that the installation of the drivers for Windows when setting up bootcamp is painless except a work around for 64bit Windows 7 and Snow Leopard bootcamp which meant you had to launch a different file to the setup.exe which would refuse to run on an "unknown version of windows" otherwise.

Main annoyance for me however was the trackpad drivers. Lovely smooth response using multitouch to scroll in Snow Leopard. Complete jerky horrible nightmare in Windows using the same hardware. Basically forces you to use a mouse with your laptop or put up with an obvious downgrade of performance you can feel all the time. Very annoying.

 

[SNGX1275]

I will second that yukka. The very elegant and awesome trackpad on OS X suddenly turns into a 15 year old track pad when you run Win 7.

That goes away if you use a USB mouse, but of course many people want to run Win 7 on a laptop rather than an iMac or MacPro.