Any major risks if i install windows 7 through bootcamp?
i just bought my macbook pro a couple days ago (pretty new to using a mac). i wanted to get windows 7 installed by using bootcamp partially because of a game (league of legends) that i played on my PC. first off, will the game be able to get downloaded if i get windows installed? and if so, are there any risks to my mac if i do this?
thank you for your time =)
The hatter wrote:
Thermal fan control and heat
some people do experience OS X being sluggish but no 'science' as to why.
you can't harm anything but it does help to have backups, to have healthy partitions and such.
Too general
Some people are more comfortable and familiar - want harm? use torrents and click on bogus ads for scareware malware or where you visit.
In my experience some of those people are already short of free space for OSX when they add BC and reduce it even further, just sayin'
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