Which is better on Bootcamp: Windows 7 or 8?

I have some softwares from my previous Dell laptop that will only run on Windos OS. I am considering installing either Windows 7 or 8 on my Mac but I would like to know which version will run better and smoother without glitches and is more reliable. I will be eventually upgrading my RAM and hard drive soon.

Hi I have run both 7 and 8 under bootcamp with osx 10.7 and 8 under 10.8.5.
I was able to use Win 7 for work, but found that Win 8 was too slow. Hard disk write speeds were very bad and I could not keep multiple applications open without the MBP slowing down so as to be unusable.
Both win 8 and 7 were fine for gaming, such as Lara Croft and Skyrim.
Without a doubt I would say that 7 is more stable and runs better under bootcamp.

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Help! bootcamped window pro 7 ok BUT driver / setup flash drive seemed to correctly install drivers, nvidia etc etc BUT on windows login screen i have no mouse or keyboard , have plugged in logitech usb mouse and keyboard still no good please help

Please can somebody help me with this.
i cannot get any mouse or keyboard input on my login screen after bootcamping windows 7 pro.
i used a correctly formatted drive for the driver downloads, they seemed to install but now i have no input method to login to wondows7.
all is fine in osx apple wireless mouse keyboard magicpad ok
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1. I have tried copying the Keyboard/Trackpad/Mouse drivers to the $WinPEDriver$ directory with mixed success on a 2012 MBP.
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I am running Windows 7 in bootcamp on my 13 inch MBP 2011.
I am really pleased how smooth the installation went and everything so far works as it was on my old windows mashine.
Just the trackpad is not running very smooth.
I reduced the scrolling down speed so the scrolling with two fingers is quiet alright now. But I have a problem with this touch to click function. Very often when I write I touch the trackpad with the palm of one hand and this results in actions like my text is continued in another line or suddenly whole paragraphs are highlighted or any other odd behaviour.
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Greetings from Melbourne
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Hi psheraton,
I have found now some setting so that I can first at all live with it. Nevertheless i would be very thankful when Apple would work the touchpaddriver over so that it works smoother. Its such an nice device and the big touchpad is great but its realy working very poor under bootcamp.
Maybe you try my settings:
First at all start bootcamp from windows system, and go to the trackpadsettings. Take out the touch for klick. You can forget working with this as when you write it just hops wherever it wants.. as I wrote before, youre suddenly write on in a completly different paragraph...that impossible to use with this settings.
Its a shame as acutally using this touch to click in other applications than writing is very smooth and good.
Other notebooks having an automaticle regonizion function which notices when your accidently put your wrist or palm on the touchpad whilst using the keyboard. Thats certanly what is needed here es well, especially because of the huge touchpad.
Next you have to go to the windows mouse driver which is not in bootcamp but in the standard Windows system settings and adjust the scroll speed down to 1 on each of the two functions there.
This then takes the overdose of speed away when you use two fingers on the touchpad to scroll.
Having it set to more than 1 is not usable either.
These are the setting how I have build myself a workaround for the moment.
But as I said...please please Apple work at this touchpaddriver together with Microsoft to get more out of this wonderful trackpad.
Hope this helps you liking your device a bit more....only Apple could help us further now...

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Hi guys,
I want to install Windows along OS X...
now what is better?
to install Windows via Boot Camp or via Parallel / VMware fusion??
and if through one of the virtual machine softwares, which is BETTER?? the Parallel for Desktop or the VMware fusion one???
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Guitarcal wrote:
I use both boot camp and vmware fusion. A neat feature of vmware fusion is you can access your boot camp partition as a virtual machine from vmware. This way, you can have both. I believe parallels might also let you do that but I have never used it. This has been helpful to me if I need to access a file from the boot camp partition quickly and easily without rebooting my computer.
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Here is the link to there home page: http://www.virtualbox.org/
I hear and read that it is excellent as well.
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hi;
i have a problem about ping latency on os x mavericks. my product is mbp retina 13 inch late 2012 and i have made 10 tests on each platform which are mavericks 10.9.2, win 7 64bit with bootcamp on same device and win 7 64 bit on another laptop (pc) production year is 2011. i have closed all the background and internet using applications on all platforms and used only the browsers. browsers have no extensions and add ons and latest versions... used same wifi modem which supports a/b/g/n... here are the results
each following 10 tests on flash based speedtest on same server:
               osx safari                       : min: 14ms avr:16ms
               osx chrome                    : min: 12 ms avr: 14ms
win 7 x64 (bootcamp) chrome       :min: 10 ms avr: 11ms
        win 7 x64 (pc) chrome           : min: 9ms avr: 11ms
each following 10 tests on html 5 based speedtest on same server
               osx safari                         : min 65ms avr:67ms
               osx chrome                      : min 64 ms avr:66ms
win 7 x64 (bootcamp) chrome        : min 62ms avr:63ms
       win 7 x64 (pc) chrome            : min 60ms avr:62ms
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Hi I have run both 7 and 8 under bootcamp with osx 10.7 and 8 under 10.8.5.
I was able to use Win 7 for work, but found that Win 8 was too slow. Hard disk write speeds were very bad and I could not keep multiple applications open without the MBP slowing down so as to be unusable.
Both win 8 and 7 were fine for gaming, such as Lara Croft and Skyrim.
Without a doubt I would say that 7 is more stable and runs better under bootcamp.

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