As the rest of the world greets the release of Microsoft Windows 7, Mac users will need to wait a little longer. According to an Apple Support document, the company will support Windows 7 home premium, professional and ultimatec in its Boot camp softwar. But it appears that only users of Snow Leopard (which includes boot Camp 3.0) will get official Apple drivers for the new Windows operating system. Apple has said those drivers should be available before the end of 2009.
Owners of some early-generation Intel Macs will be unable to get the required drivers at all.
Apple's support document lists nine models in three different Mac lines (three iMacs, five MmacBook Pros, and the original mac Pro, all released in 2006) that "will not be supported for use with Windows 7 using Boot Camp." It's unclear why the nine models were excluded, though one could assume they contain some piece of hardware (perhaps a logic-board controller) that Apple chose not to support.
That said, I've been running a prerelease version of Windows 7 on my early 2006 Mac Pro with few problems. (It occasionally wakes from sleep for no reason) On a brand new 17 inch MacBook Pro, the Boot Camp drivers for Vista included with the Mac system installed flawlessly in Windows 7.
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