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They said it wouldn't work...

October 9, 2009 -- After upgrading OS X to Snow Leopard, I installed the latest BootCamp.. and then installed the final RTM version of Windows 7 64bit. Who said this didn't work? HA. All drivers work out-of-the-box.. Runs flawlessly.

February 5, 2010 -- Same installation -- still working great! Updated BootCamp to the official release. No problems. :)

October 10, 2010 -- It's been a year with the same installation. A few weeks ago I purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 solid state drive. My plan was to suck some more speed from this system while also refreshing the OS (fresh install of Snow Leopard and Windows 7). That didn't happen. The SSD would not permit OS X to upgrade to Snow Leopard - no matter what. I tried everything to get SL installed - even resorting to just imaging the current system and bringing it down on the SSD - that worked, but there were drive errors and the drive couldn't be partitioned for Bootcamp. I've sent the drive back to Newegg for an RMA... but I'm doubtful it's the drive, but rather an incompatibility with the MacBook Pro's SATA controller. We'll see. If the new drive doesn't work, I may try an SSD from Other World Computing - which claims it has some of the fastest SSD's on the market (uses the same Sandforce controller as the OCZ Vertex) and is compatible with Macs. We'll see this week when the replacement drive arrives.

October 18 - Replacement SSD didn't work - although it got further in the installation. Leopard installed fine - and booted in 10 seconds. I gave up on the OCZ SSD and got a WD Black 320GB 7200 HDD - quicker than the OEM 5400rpm drive. I also got 8GB of ram for the laptop - so that should hold me over for a little while. I'm going to sell the OCZ SSD and get a SSD that has been confirmed by the manufacturer to work with my model MBP.

I'm loving Google Chrome in Windows 7. The speed, sleekness, security tied to Google database of malicious/phishing sites, new tabs which display most visited sites, dynamic tabs (ability to pull tabbed windows out and put them back in the tabs bar), download, status bar, multi threading/processes stability... all features that are very nice. Now if only it had an RSS update notifier similar to Safari.