I, like several hundred thousand others have been patiently waiting for the promised 64 bit Win 7 boot camp drivers. I have still heard no announcement since the one that said they would be available before the end of 2009. Well, today I purchased a new 2.53Ghz Mac Mini at the Atlanta Apple store, and was surprised to find that the installed OSX was the current 10.6.2, be even more surprised to see that the boot camp drivers on the install disk were dated in November. Another identical Mac Mini purchased in November had boot camp drivers dated in July. I went ahead and partitioned for boot camp, and ran the 64 bit Windows 7 OEM installation.

Apple released a Boot Camp 5 update that added 64-bit driver support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on Tuesday. Instead of a single updater file, Apple has two updaters. Win7 Install Does Not Support Bootcamp 64-bit? To install the bootcamp 64-bit drivers on that copy of Windows 7. Windows-7 64-bit boot-camp or ask.

It ran just fine. I was really surprised to find that the boot camp setup program on the new Mac Mini disk installed 64 bit drivers without hesitation, and it seems to work just fine. Pro Light 1000 Software Reviews here.

So, I guess they will be in general release quite soon, but I am happy to have mine, and will use it to install my other versions of Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro and IMac. Mac Mini 2.53Ghz, 4 Gb Ram, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Running 64 bit Windows 7 Posted on Jan 9, 2010 2:18 PM. I had the same experience: bought 10. Windows Xp Home Edition Sp1 Iso Download. 5.0 retail when it came out, had buggy BC drivers same as 1.4 beta; bought later DVD of Leopard and newer drivers; a new Mac Pro had drivers. But none of those updates ever made it to others; were never posted for udpate or download (what use is Apple Software Update in Windows, remind me again). New systems actually do always seem to have new drivers.

And yes, definitely use on your other Macs. I never could have used Vista otherwise without later drivers. But I feel buying Leopard once should have been enough. Maybe when Snow Leopard reaches its (last) DVD like 10.6.6 or something I should buy a new copy, same as 10.5. Download Game Soccer Manager Offline more. 6 (the last retail version Leopard). Jan 9, 2010 3:07 PM. After running the boot camp assistant, I get the same message that you have received, that Boot Camp allows the running of Windows XP or Vista. Windows 7 is not mentioned.

I am not sure what that really means, though, since that is a message from within OSX 10.6.2, which is unchanged. The problem for me has previously been with the Windows Boot Camp drivers after the installation of 64 bit Windows 7, when I got a message to the effect that the version was not supported, and it would not run the driver installation program on the Windows 7 side of Boot Camp. I never had a problem running the MS 64 bit Windows 7 installation disk program, I just couldn't get the needed drivers to load in the prior version of the 3.0 driver which is dated in July.

I do not have the build on the older version that was supplied to me with the prior Mac Mini purchased in November. At this point, when I run the 3.0 Boot Camp installation drivers after installing 64 bit Windows 7 from the MS install disk, it installs normally, and seems to be running just fine. I cannot, of course, vouch for whether these are the final drivers for Boot Camp, and I rather suspect they are not. But at least they allow me to install a working version of 64 bit Windows 7, which I have not been able to do since Windows 7 left beta. Jan 10, 2010 6:41 PM. My understanding is that the 2.x drivers which were released with OSX 10.5 do not support 64 bit Windows nor win 7, and that the 3.x boot camp drivers which do support 64 bit windows vista and 32 bit Windows 7 have only been released with Mac OSX 10.6 distribution software, and not via download.