{"id":34,"date":"2012-12-03T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2013-04-02T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:25:36","slug":"windows8-on-a-mba-is-possible-but-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut-is-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/windows8-on-a-mba-is-possible-but-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut-is-required\/","title":{"rendered":"#windows8 on a #mba is possible, but its a sledgehammer to crack a nut&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its taken six days and five clean deletes of the hdd, but finally i have managed to get windows 8 running on a mba.<\/p>\n<p>First, creating a boot camp usb using the wizard. Not too hard, but is tailored to windows 7. Got the ISO from the official download off of the Microsoft store.<\/p>\n<p>Second, getting the stuff installed. Again, not hard. Best thing to do is wait and let it chug along doing what it needs to do.<\/p>\n<p>Third, install the boot camp drivers etc. This again is pretty painless and means that most, if not all, hardware should now work. It appears windows 7 and windows 8 have very similar drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Forth. You should find that you windows 8 software doesn&#8217;t work. The product key fails to register&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My strong advice would be to go to start, pc settings and rebuild windows 8 but keep all software and settings to right any installation issues.<\/p>\n<p>See how you get on from there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its taken six days and five clean deletes of the hdd, but finally i have managed to get windows 8 running on a mba. First, creating a boot camp usb using the wizard. Not too hard, but is tailored to windows 7. Got the ISO from the official download off of the Microsoft store. Second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}