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The freshly downloaded version reported it was installing Boot Camp 5, build 5241 and all seems happy now.
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Where this leads to is perhaps an explanation as to why the old Boot Camp drivers didn’t work: namely, no SPI driver support. Don't be fooled.Īpple System Profiler details SPI HIDs and dual channel mics According to the Apple website, the Boot Camp 5 support software has been around since March, so it seemed safe to assume it would work as no update was on offer and the MacBook Air (mid 2011 or later) was listed as supported. I’m pretty sure I was using a USB stick with drivers from my last Boot Camp installation. I’m not quite sure how I managed it, but at one point I did get to the installer screen, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard were functional, so it was impossible to proceed further. That’ll allow you to choose your booting options to include the installer DVD resident in the attached external optical drive.

Reboot and hold down the Alt/Option key, you say. So any Boot Camp old hand will be rather flummoxed as to why the darn thing restarts to a black screen with a blinking cursor instead of the Windows installer. There are a few well documented twists and turns regarding drive formatting, but other than that, it’s usually plain sailing.
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Boot Camp is an Apple utility featured on all recent Macs that can start the machine up with Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, once the latter is installed the tool partitions the drive without a reformat and sets about downloading the Wintel drivers you’ll need to have stored on a USB stick prior to the Redmond operating system's installation. Still striking, but isn't it time Apple did some more design work?įirst things first, though. There’s just one tiny detail here that needs to be adhered to which makes the difference between success and failure. Now, before I list my futile efforts, you should know that there is a way to make this work and there’s even an Apple online knowledgebase article on the topic.

I am referring to my efforts to use Boot Camp to start up Windows 7 on this model, something I’ve done on countless Intel-based Macs in the past as a way of benchmarking them against their PC counterparts. How do I know this? Through pain and misery, of course. We’ve already seen what the build-to-order dual-core Intel Core i7 Air is capable of - so how does the dual-core 1.3GHz Intel Core i5-4250U CPU base model fare with its 4GB of mobile DDR3 RAM and a 128GB solid-state flash drive when you configure it for the best of both worlds?ĭespite having two USB 3.0 ports on the MacBook Air, it would seem that in Apple’s realm, not all USB ports are created equal. The original Ultrabook? Apple's MacBook Air 13in
