Dual boot OSX and Windows 7 natively

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Published on 2012-06-13T01:34:34Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 4:43 UTC
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I'm considering getting one of those new fancy Mac Book Pro's with the fancy screens, but after reading some stuff on the internets about running Windows 7 with bootcamp:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2770866?start=0&tstart=0

It seems you can't use the integrated graphics with windows, this causes windows to chew the battery life:

I am afraid it is not possible. Since Apple introduced dual graphics chip laptops, they kept the low power/embedded GPU hidden under Window and they expose only the power hungry discrete GPU.

It feels that this is being done on purpose so that it appears to users that OS X offers a better experience and battery life over Windows.

So running bootcamp and windows kills the battery, running in parallels means you don't get accelerated 3d support (or something along those lines), so you don't get the performance out of it.

I'm wondering:

Is it possible to natively dual boot Windows 7 on a MBP, and if so would/does that give windows access to the integrated graphics to be able to not rape the battery?

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