MacBook running Windows 7 Beta

Here is a video of my Late 2006 MacBook dual booting Leopard and the Windows 7 Public Beta.
Specs of the MacBook:
1.83 gHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1 GB RAM
80 GB HDD

I am enjoying Windows 7 so far, but we'll see how it lasts the test of time. Every PC I've worked with slows down after about 3 or 4 months, where as Leopard is just as fast as it always has been.

I'd also like to point out that the Beta installed on my MacBook in about 40 minutes, and it took my friends HP dv6000 nearly 3 hours. Looks like a Mac will run Windows better then most PC's still =P

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[superavrillavignefan]

uhmmm i had this like this a few weeks ago

[matt452]

okay? i've had this since february.

[MrLilc337]

i have it on my late 2006 macbook too works perfect exept for the audio can someone help me fix

[JMARKILLA]

the overheating problem i had too turns out its just a symptom of your fan dying and not being able to spin fast enough to keep the proccessor cool and also rember that windows is natively an intel/amd system and mac was primerialy a powerpc system the require different nessecities processing power being one of them the Mac os is easir on the intel chip because its basically not as process hogging as windows, and be ready to replace your fan when it starts grinding, i just did mine last week

[matt452]

well i only have an 80GB hard drive, so i made the windows OS 20 GB. However I plan to upgrade to a 500 GB drive, at which point i will make the windows partition 100GB.

[lbkiml]

wow quick response haha

well yea.. the overheating was one of the main reasons for me to stray away from bootcamp and just go with a VM

also how big is the partition you used on windows and is there a noticeable difference in speed on the mac os side?

[matt452]

hmm.. thats strange. I never had the problem of over heating running both windows xp sp3 and windows 7.

[lbkiml]

i just kept reading everyones response to how bootcamp leads to overheating (around the upper left area) when running windows

some where its so hot where its untouchable

so i was just wondering if you knew any thing if win7 still has this problem

[matt452]

idk what you mean by 'like usual'. i've run 3 different OS's using boot camp and i've never had an issue with over heating.

I haven't really used it too much running on the battery, and i've never really looked at cpu usage.

[lbkiml]

does the laptop overheat like usual on bootcamp?

hows the cpu usage and battery life? (compared to xp or something)