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		<title>Abbett.org</title>
		<link>http://abbett.org/</link>
	    <description>Jonathan Abbett | Interaction Designer | Boston, MA</description>
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	    <dc:creator>jonathan@abbett.org</dc:creator>

		<dc:rights>Copyright 2012</dc:rights>
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			<title>Installing Windows 7 natively on a late&#45;2011 MacBook Air</title>
			<link>http://abbett.org/post/installing-windows-7-natively-on-a-late-2011-macbook-air</link>
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<p>Today, I received my refurbished 13.3" MacBook Air (1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5). It was the only laptop out there that met my usage criteria: none of the PC laptops under 3 lb. have screen resolutions above 1366x768.</p>

<p>The process is actually <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/windows-7-on-the-macbook-air-dont-go-there/14714">dead simple</a>.</p>

<ol>
<li>Find a USB stick, an external USB DVD drive, and a Windows 7 install DVD.</li>
<li>Boot up into OS X.</li>
<li>Run the Boot Camp Assistant and transfer the Windows Support files to the USB stick.</li>
<li>Restart the computer, holding Command-R to boot into Rescue mode.</li>
<li>Select the computer's main partition (the largest one) and erase it (select MSDOS format).</li>
<li>Connect the external DVD drive and put in the Windows 7 install DVD.</li>
<li>Restart the computer, holding the Command button to boot from DVD.</li>
<li>Go through the Windows 7 install process.</li>
<li>Once you're logged into Windows, insert your USB stick. In the "WindowsSupport" folder, run "setup.exe" to install all the appropriate hardware drivers.</li>
</ol>

<p>Done!</p>

<p>Now, if you're like me, and you neglected to do step 3 before wiping OS X, there is, fortunately, an alternative. I found a direct-download link <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3257424">on the Apple discussions site</a> to the latest version of OS X Lion's Boot Camp files and extracted the WindowsSupport part on my Windows box:</p>

<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/54/25/041-0707/2VPHmdxTTJW2yYdy3qHCChmQPH5dn74pbR/BootCampESD.pkg">OS X Lion's Boot Camp files</a></li>
<li>Open the <code>pkg</code> file with 7-Zip and traverse through the archive to <code>Payload\Payload~\.\Library\Application Support\BootCamp\WindowsSupport.dmg\</code></li>
<li>Extract the file <code>0.Apple_ISO</code>.</li>
<li>Rename it to something convenient, like <code>support.iso</code></li>
<li>Open the ISO in WinRAR, then drag its contents onto your USB drive.</li>
</ol>

<p>This took me a few attempts, since there are several direct-download links to different versions of the Boot Camp files... I needed the set that was right for my particular model.</p>

<p>To celebrate, I'm thinking of using <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_(522695099).jpg/1280px-Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_(522695099).jpg">this image</a> as my desktop background.</p>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/wilfork75&quot;  &gt;@wilfork75&lt;/a&gt; We&#39;re ready! Good luck! &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/PGClOHQp&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/PGClOHQp&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/161096510812065792</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/161096510812065792</guid>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/wilfork75"  >@wilfork75</a> We're ready! Good luck! <a href="http://t.co/PGClOHQp"  >http://t.co/PGClOHQp</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:42:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>I just pasted an image into my webapp using JavaScript. This is truly a golden age. (Tweet me for jQuery plugin code)</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/160910126579060736</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/160910126579060736</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
I just pasted an image into my webapp using JavaScript. This is truly a golden age. (Tweet me for jQuery plugin code)			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:22:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/YAppelbaum&quot;  &gt;@YAppelbaum&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/marstall&quot;  &gt;@marstall&lt;/a&gt; Superb indeed. I had only known that in 1873, Brookline refused to be &quot;Suffolkated.&quot;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/160909218088628224</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/160909218088628224</guid>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/YAppelbaum"  >@YAppelbaum</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/marstall"  >@marstall</a> Superb indeed. I had only known that in 1873, Brookline refused to be "Suffolkated."			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:18:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Each day, I&#39;m further amazed at ease of assembling web tech into superb software. Add doc authoring to your app: &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/4Dy6NmsL&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/4Dy6NmsL&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/157861258119479297</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/157861258119479297</guid>
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Each day, I'm further amazed at ease of assembling web tech into superb software. Add doc authoring to your app: <a href="http://t.co/4Dy6NmsL"  >http://t.co/4Dy6NmsL</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:27:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/gkatsev&quot;  &gt;@gkatsev&lt;/a&gt; Good luck!</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/156238868931284993</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/156238868931284993</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
<a href="http://twitter.com/gkatsev"  >@gkatsev</a> Good luck!			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:00:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>This is 2012. Why doesn&#39;t the RMV automatically remind you when your license is expiring? Had to get notified by &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/zipcar&quot;  &gt;@zipcar&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/156238700311875584</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/156238700311875584</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
This is 2012. Why doesn't the RMV automatically remind you when your license is expiring? Had to get notified by <a href="http://twitter.com/zipcar"  >@zipcar</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:59:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>After years of using YUI Reset + 960.gs, I think I may be converted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/TwBootstrap&quot;  &gt;@TwBootstrap&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/155883426111688704</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/155883426111688704</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
After years of using YUI Reset + 960.gs, I think I may be converted to <a href="http://twitter.com/TwBootstrap"  >@TwBootstrap</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:27:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>The sky&#39;s the limit. Unless you&#39;re an astronaut.</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154796940335398912</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154796940335398912</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
The sky's the limit. Unless you're an astronaut.			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:30:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jmspool&quot;  &gt;@jmspool&lt;/a&gt; Any way to convert between Kardashian marriages and Smoots?</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154751657564057600</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154751657564057600</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
<a href="http://twitter.com/jmspool"  >@jmspool</a> Any way to convert between Kardashian marriages and Smoots?			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:30:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>IE6 is dead! Long live... IE8? I give up. &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/zPF4JukG&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/zPF4JukG&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154751101206413312</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154751101206413312</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
IE6 is dead! Long live... IE8? I give up. <a href="http://t.co/zPF4JukG"  >http://t.co/zPF4JukG</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:28:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Discovered that a web project I toiled over for months in &#39;10 was finally released, but only after &quot;graphic designers&quot; tore the thing apart.</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154426813781786625</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154426813781786625</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
Discovered that a web project I toiled over for months in '10 was finally released, but only after "graphic designers" tore the thing apart.			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:59:56 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Really nails it: why I was so excited to install Uber but have never actually used the service. &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/ApqZ6jok&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/ApqZ6jok&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154420769307377664</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/154420769307377664</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
Really nails it: why I was so excited to install Uber but have never actually used the service. <a href="http://t.co/ApqZ6jok"  >http://t.co/ApqZ6jok</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:35:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Sage words from &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codepo8&quot;  &gt;@codepo8&lt;/a&gt; on single&#45;page web apps: &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/e1VEyC6u&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/e1VEyC6u&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152244869023277056</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152244869023277056</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
Sage words from <a href="http://twitter.com/codepo8"  >@codepo8</a> on single-page web apps: <a href="http://t.co/e1VEyC6u"  >http://t.co/e1VEyC6u</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:29:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/dknemeyer&quot;  &gt;@dknemeyer&lt;/a&gt; Yes! I was getting a little tired of just Ira Glass ;)</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152109616665329664</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152109616665329664</guid>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/dknemeyer"  >@dknemeyer</a> Yes! I was getting a little tired of just Ira Glass ;)			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:32:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ScottKirsner&quot;  &gt;@ScottKirsner&lt;/a&gt; It baffled me when BofA stopped selling stamps. (or was it Fleet... or BankBoston?)</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152108411876679680</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152108411876679680</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
<a href="http://twitter.com/ScottKirsner"  >@ScottKirsner</a> It baffled me when BofA stopped selling stamps. (or was it Fleet... or BankBoston?)			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:27:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Anyone use RCN&#39;s TiVo box with pytivo? Looks like I could get rid of my WD TV Live...</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152107907255762946</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/152107907255762946</guid>
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Anyone use RCN's TiVo box with pytivo? Looks like I could get rid of my WD TV Live...			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:25:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>It&#39;s almost as if each media industry needs its content pirated before it shapes up and delivers it properly. &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/ktmNRua6&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/ktmNRua6&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/149366708707139584</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/149366708707139584</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
It's almost as if each media industry needs its content pirated before it shapes up and delivers it properly. <a href="http://t.co/ktmNRua6"  >http://t.co/ktmNRua6</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:52:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Spent all night adding more real data to my wireframes, but I think it&#39;s worth it.</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/149359257056325632</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/149359257056325632</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
Spent all night adding more real data to my wireframes, but I think it's worth it.			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:23:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Yikes, some deadly hummus in Taunton: &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/ouOqFLfd&quot;  &gt;http://t.co/ouOqFLfd&lt;/a&gt;</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/147706581621014528</link>
			<guid>http://twitter.com/jonabbett/status/147706581621014528</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[
Yikes, some deadly hummus in Taunton: <a href="http://t.co/ouOqFLfd"  >http://t.co/ouOqFLfd</a>			]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:56:07 -0800</pubDate>
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