[Defiant]

I have an HP laptop that I installed Mac on, and now can boot to either. In Windows 7, the touchpad is ok as a mouse, but gestures are awful. For example, when I use 2 fingers to scroll with the trackpad, it is clunky and disjointed. However, when I am using the laptop as a Mac, and with a driver that is generic because Mac did not build this laptop, the touchpad works beautifully, and all the Mac gestures work.

That tells me it is not the hardware, it is the software. Whether that is Microsoft's fault, or the manufacturer's, I don't know.

[The KG9 Kid]

You might like an MacBook Air or MacBook Pro running Win7 in VM mode.

More and more people are passing on buying a Dell or HP Windows notebook/laptop and buying the Apple laptop to run Windows either natively through BootCamp or via VM in a window on the OSX desktop. Parallels is a good VM manager for Windows on Apple hardware.

A copy of Win7 running in a VM window on OSX is only about 5% ‘slower’ than running Win7 natively on the hardware. Plus, if the Win7 install gets perverted somehow, you can restore it to new in a flash by loading your backup copy of Win7 VM.

It’s all about VM these days. The reason why Hackintoshes are dwindling away is because it’s not much more expensive to get the real Apple hardware compared to a Dell/HP laptop.

[tophat9000]

Really it seem to be the Synaptics multi touch pad drivers that are just crap in windows.. makes using the touchpad feel like your a junkie with the shakes

Seen on some the chat boards customs drivers that greatly improve..

Personally don't care for multi touch be it mac or windows