Boot camp help needed windows 7

I have a mid 2010 mac mini and i am looking at putting windows 7 on it but i don't know which version to get i want it to play my games and run some on my windows apps do I buy 32 bit or 64 bit? will bootcamp run my games as if it was a pc running windows? will the drivers support my games? thanks

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asked Oct 08 '10 at 07:37

Thetechguy4711
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So, just install the 64-bit in Boot Camp if you have 4GB or RAM or more, other than that, go with Windows 7 x86 (32-bit). That's all you should be worried about: RAM.

I have a new MBP 2010 with Windows 7 x64 and 4GB DDR3-SDRAM, and it runs games fine, just like a regular version of Windows. I've noticed a few differences, but it works just fine.

PS. Don't count on maxing out Crysis, especially on your Mac Mini. ;-)

answered Oct 08 '10 at 21:48

djmoore711
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Boot Camp only supports 64bit on selected hardware, so you'd better check up on that. I'd recommend just straight up dual booting.

answered Oct 08 '10 at 14:09

Ben Grant
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Boot Camp is like dual booting, but due to how Apple set it all up, you have to use Boot Camp in order to do this.

(Oct 08 '10 at 21:46) djmoore711

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