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Could anyone point me to links for installing the smallest possible OS X partition for full-time use of a Macbook Pro as a Windows machine?
I've decided to press some older unibodies that I've found into use around the home for general basharound netbook / media playback duties - I don't want to specifically buy larger SSD's for these and will be using spare 160Gb X25-M's - and thinking about when syncing videos etc temporarily locally, I'd like to have as much room possible for the Windows partition.
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You can give the whole disk to Windows but I want to say the smallest recommended OS X partition is like 15GB. I forget where I heard that but I know Apple was bashing Microsoft during a keynote (what else is new?) about recommending 20GB of free space to install Windows.
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You don't have to have OS X installed. Just give the entire disk to Windows, and you'll be fine.
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Thanks all. Decided not to bother with shenanigans, but just order 300Gb Intel 320's and install standard OS X image + go with Boot Camp partition for rest.
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