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HOWTO: Windows 7 on Unibody MacBook Takes All Afternoon
Cult of Mac — ... all the rest. But it’s still not over. To make your multi-touch trackpad work properly, you’ll need to then go here for one more software update. Another restart, and you’re golden. My only complaint (other than the fact that it’s still Windows) is that I can’t find a way to remap the keyboard so my cmd key becomes control under Windows, swapping the fairly useless Windows key to the hard-to-reach control key. Thoughts, anyone? Download the Windows 7 Beta

A Unibody MacBook, VMware Fusion, and Windows 7 Beta
TheAppleBlog — ... Hit the MS web site and download the beta. It comes in the form of an ISO image file. As an aside, MS warns you that it may take “many hours” to download the file — it’s 2.44 GB. Ha! They laughed at me when I ponied up extra dollars each month for Cox Cable’s special premium high-speed connection. The fools! Who’s laughing now? Thirty-seven minutes for the download. ...

Install Windows 7 on a Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: OS, SoftwareRaise your hand if you remember when a Mac was a Mac and a Windows machine was a Windows machine, and never the twain shall meet. I sure do. Change has come. Our own Christina Warren has written an exhaustive set of instructions for installing Windows 7 on a Mac over at our sister site, Download Squad. Windows 7 is in beta, so don't try and use it for any mission-critical tasks. Meant to be an incremental update to Vista (Snow Vista?), the current iteration of Windows 7 includes changes like a ...

Microsoft Recommends Windows 7 Home Premium for Netbooks
jkOnTheRun — ... . The current minimum recommended specs for Windows 7 (subject to change, of course) list a 1.0GHz CPU, 1GB of system memory, 16GB of storage capacity, DirectX9 support and 128MB of video memory for Aero. By and large, many of today’s netbooks fit the bill and surely tomorrow’s will too. ...