What are the drawbacks of dual booting a Macbook Air with Mac OS and Windows 7/8?

[ruthless29]

For example, not being able to go on standby mode? Any frequent crashes as a result? Files and folders become inaccessible across the two operating systems?

How does it appear anyways, during boot time?

[Cas77]

I'm running Win7 in parallels on my Air and it has always worked fine. I installed it with the option to share document folders between OSX and Win. It also goes in standby with no issues.

I know you're asking about boot camp...so this might be off topic a little.

[Agafaba]

I would say the major drawback is paying a premium for a Mac and then installing windows on it lol.

[Dina_E]

besides take up hdd space nothing really.

i dual boot xp pro to play steam.

[wilsonlam97]

I would say the major drawback is paying a premium for a Mac and then installing windows on it lol.

Lol

[PitchyDawg]

Slightly reduced battery life in Win 7. Less responsive trackpad also in Win 7. Possibly needing to remap keys and commands in Win 7 to the MBA kb. Having a Frankenbook curiosity that might draw in strangers who will strike up a conversation about why you'd buy Mac hardware to install Microsoft software. :)

[mikeo007]

Slightly reduced battery life in Win 7. Less responsive trackpad also in Win 7. Possibly needing to remap keys and commands in Win 7 to the MBA kb. Having a Frankenbook curiosity that might draw in strangers who will strike up a conversation about why you'd buy Mac hardware to install Microsoft software. :)

This and as someone else said, you have to allocate a chunk of your SSD to Windows. The mac trackpad is really quite horrible to use in Windows.

[thinfilms]

Having a Frankenbook curiosity that might draw in strangers who will strike up a conversation about why you'd buy Mac hardware to install Microsoft software. :)

lol +1