Win 7 Pro disk space requirement

How much disk space does Win 7 Pro along with Visual Studio 2010 Pro
need? I've delayed getting a new PC, and was thinking of getting a new
iMac with Lion and then using boot camp to install in a separate
partition for win 7 pro. That way I can have the best of both worlds.
I can't really do the reverse with say an HP PC... Apple has decided to
put the stop on that with Lion being installed on a regular PC and
trying to put a stop to the so called "HackinTosh" PCs. Unless of
course they also dropped boot camp in Lion, which I haven't found any
information on this point yet.

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In news:,
GreyCloud wrote:
> How much disk space does Win 7 Pro along with Visual Studio 2010 Pro
> need? I've delayed getting a new PC, and was thinking of getting a
> new iMac with Lion and then using boot camp to install in a separate
> partition for win 7 pro. That way I can have the best of both worlds.
> I can't really do the reverse with say an HP PC... Apple has decided
> to put the stop on that with Lion being installed on a regular PC and
> trying to put a stop to the so called "HackinTosh" PCs. Unless of
> course they also dropped boot camp in Lion, which I haven't found any
> information on this point yet.

I don't know how much this will help you. But Windows 7 minimum is 16GB
before installation. After installation it is using somewhere around
8GB.

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Bill
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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

On 6/18/11 11:50 AM, BillW50 wrote:
> In news:,
> GreyCloud wrote:
>> How much disk space does Win 7 Pro along with Visual Studio 2010 Pro
>> need? I've delayed getting a new PC, and was thinking of getting a
>> new iMac with Lion and then using boot camp to install in a separate
>> partition for win 7 pro. That way I can have the best of both worlds.
>> I can't really do the reverse with say an HP PC... Apple has decided
>> to put the stop on that with Lion being installed on a regular PC and
>> trying to put a stop to the so called "HackinTosh" PCs. Unless of
>> course they also dropped boot camp in Lion, which I haven't found any
>> information on this point yet.
>
> I don't know how much this will help you. But Windows 7 minimum is 16GB
> before installation. After installation it is using somewhere around
> 8GB.
>
That is good to know. The imac harddrive is 500GB. So if bootcamp is
still supported I can just split the drive space. Thnkx much.


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"If they can make you believe absurdities they can make you commit
atrocities."
by Voltaire