Will Windows 7 64Bit Install on Macbook?

I have been trying to educate myself on whether or not Windows 7 will install onto my Macbook 4,1. Have seen a lot written about MBP's, but little on just MacBooks. I currently run Vista and XP on my machine in 32 bit through BootCamp and Parrallels, but am hoping to get rid of Vista and replace it with 64bit Win 7. Just wondering if it can be done, or if I have to go get the 32 bit version to do this.

Hi,
I am running Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit on MacBook unibody and upto now I managed to get everything up an running.
Windows 7 install fairly easily and runs OOB using BootCamp (dual boot). Then install the BootCamp drivers 64-bit version. Remember to run it as Adminstrator mode.
Even better install the latest bootcamp v3 drivers from the snow leopard dvd. You will have all fn keys, on screen displays etc. Also some people say that you cannot have a native right click on MacBook with Windows, but I can assure you that the bootcamp v3 drivers add a native right click to windows via the bootcamp control panel.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see that I could even access the mac os file system via Windows!
I can say that Windows 7 really rocks on MacBook with 4GB of accessible RAM.
Hope that this helps.

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