Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Can I install Window 7 Professional on a boot camp partition on my 1.8/2GB/64GB SSD MBA? I believe it is running OS 10.5.6 and is currently running XP Pro on a boot camp partition with the HD divided 50/50? I was planning on booting from the peripheral drive with the restore disc, wiping the hard drive clean, re-installing OS-X on a much smaller partition since I only use the windows OS on this computer and then installing Windows 7.

leiladog wrote:
Can I install Window 7 Professional on a boot camp partition on my 1.8/2GB/64GB SSD MBA?
Today I installed Win7 Preimum on my brand new MBA (1.8/4GB/128GB SSD). I started with a stock MBA and first installed the new version of Parallels (7). After that installation, I installed Win7 Premium, followed by MS Office for Students and MS Streets and Trips. I should note that I also added slightly over 500 tunes for iTunes.
I was hoping to only install Excel and Word, but I never saw an option to go custom and as a result, all of Office for Students got installed.
With Parallels I didn't have to partition the hard drive. While I'm not totally sure, I think Parallels "grabs" empty space as needed, either for OS-X or Windows.
When I finished the installation, the computer reports that I still have 87GB.
I would assume if you went the route above and installed all the same programs, you would end up with 43GB of free space.
I intend to use my MBA as a road warrior, mainly surfing with some light Excel/Word. Unless you really need the Professional version, you might consider just installing the Premium version if the size of the program is much larger.
I've only been running for a few hours, but the machine seems very robust in both OS-X and Win7. Re the size of your hard drive, you might consider picking up a small external hard drive. I have a Western Digital Passport that is about the size of a cigarette pack and has the look of something that Apple might have made. 500GB for about $70.
I'm wondering if your 2GB of RAM might be a little on the weak side for going this route?

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