Can Windows Vista x64 run on an iMac?

[Icaras]

I know this question must have been answered before, but I'm a little lazy and don't want to search the forums tonight.

Anyway, I understand that Vista x64 is supported for current Mac Pros and MBPs, but is it also supported for the iMac? If its not, does anyone think that Apple will provide support in the next anticipated update?

 

[Icaras]

lol, i searched and researched anyway. So I guess since the imac already houses a 64 bit intel core 2 processor, it fits the bill for a x64 vista compatibility, right? Just wanted to clarify this with the gurus of this forum...

 

[Icaras]

Anyone?

I am actually looking through the boot camp installation & Setup guide and on page 4 it says:

"If you have a Mac Pro or a Macbook Pro introduced in early 2008 or later, you can use a 64-bit version of Windows Vista."

So i guess this means it excludes iMacs? If this is true, hopefully Apple includes 64 bit Windows support on new Penryn imacs this summer

 

[zap2]

As far as I know, its limited to MacBook Pro and Mac Pro....but I'm not super up to date on boot camp, since I have no need for it.

 

[flopticalcube]

From another thread:

here's my experience of using the 64bit drivers on an imac-24 purchased December 2007 with bluetooth k/b and mouse.

Ran bootcamp assistant and created partitions and started installtion of Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition.
When it came to selecting regional settings and timezones etc..the apple bluetooth k/b and mouse would not function (obviously).

Plugged in Dell USB keyboard and MS intellimouse from PC and the worked almost instantaneously, so proceeded with install at this point.

Vista installed without issue.

first time entering vista i wanted to run bootcamp and get the drivers so had to download a sub-set of the vista 64bit drivers from a torrent, this activated bluetooth k/b and mouse so off with the USB k/b mouse.

Could not get vista to recognise my ATI RADEON HD 2600 PRO card even with native drivers from ATI, so proceeded to torrent the bootcamp64 executable and ALL the drivers this time.

Turned off UAC in Vista and ran bootcamp64 with installed bootcamp on Vista and all the relevant drivers..presto, everything works now like a charm...no need to use and mobile modders or stuff like that.

scores on the doors after install were:

Processor 5.3
RAM 4.8
Graphics (AERO) 5.9
Graphics (GAMING) 5.3
H.Disk 5.5

Spec is imac-24" alu 2.4Gig, 320GB HD and 2GB RAM

Hope this might help somebody out who wants to do similar, only one issue I'm aware of and that is when you hold the option key on reboot to select the O/S to boot to the bluetooth mouse does not seem to work, so I use the bluetooth k/b arrow keys and return to select the O/S.

(my reason for doing this was the p!ss poor performance of Vista Ultimate 64-bit under VMWARE fusion 1.1)

Maybe next time you shouldn't be so lazy and do your own search.

 

[Icaras]

Thanks for the paste. Trust me, I have been trying to search out this topic for a while now. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough but I could barely find any search results with imac 64 bit windows.

Anyway...damn, what are the chances of Apple support vista 64 bit on imac? I just hope they don't isolate windows 64 bit support on only the "pro" line. I mean, with all these new chips coming out, even the imacs and macbooks should eventually be powerful enough to run windows 64 bit.

Well, here's hoping

 

[Stridder44]

Thanks for the paste. Trust me, I have been trying to search out this topic for a while now. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough but I could barely find any search results with imac 64 bit windows.

Anyway...damn, what are the chances of Apple support vista 64 bit on imac? I just hope they don't isolate windows 64 bit support on only the "pro" line. I mean, with all these new chips coming out, even the imacs and macbooks should eventually be powerful enough to run windows 64 bit.

Well, here's hoping

Yeah I'm confused about this too. Boot Camp installation says v.2.0.0. Not sure if this is the latest or not.

 

[nick9191]

Even is Apple have no 64bit drivers you should still be able to install it, and then maybe find some drivers off the original manufacturer (ie. ATI for the graphics card).

 

[tb30033]

iMAC and 64 bit Vista

It seems you can install / run 64 bit Vista on the iMac. Checkout this article from PC Mag the article is dated March 6, 2009

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342650,00.asp