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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
All Boot Camp really is, is a way of dynamically re-partitioning an existing HFS+ drive (one time process), a BIOS compatible boot-loader shim (because Macs are EFI based) that gets the initial Windows bootloader process kicked off, and a set of drivers for the hardware in the laptop. If you look at the second link you provided, they have a link to a Gizmodo article that shows Windows 7 installing in bootcamp the same as any other bootcamp install of XP or Vista.
My hunch is that Apple is declaring bootcamp unsupported for Windows 7 until they have their Windows 7 drivers tested and ready to go. In the meantime, the Vista ones will work fine. You can even go ahead and grab nVidia drivers for you graphics chip if you want from the nVidia website.
Bootcamp is running Windows bare metal, without any doubt.
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If there isn't a layer between Win7 and the hardware why would it need drivers? All the hardware in a Mac is supported by Windows with windows drivers unless they put something in the hardware to make windows not recognize it? Which i wouldn't understand since they go out of their way to make bootcamp.