The Intel HD 3000 Graphics on the 2011 MacBook Airs and Mac Minis have some problems with the built-in Windows 8 drivers; which makes the lower half of the display flicker and indistinguishable right from the setup. As you might imagine, that makes it kind of hard to work with or even finish the setup! The easiest solution is to plug in an external display, which shouldn't be affected by the glitch. If that's not an option, you need to use your mouse and/or touchpad to guess where to click next on the Windows 8 installer.

Once you've gotten past that small hurdle, download the latest and unzip the file, because you're going to need to do a bit of driver tinkering in order to get your graphics to work: Open up the subfolder "Graphics" and look out for the "igdlh.inf" (32-Bit) or "igdlh64.inf" (64-Bit) file. Open it and replace the line "no install on Win8" with the entire paragraph you see under the line "[IntelGfx.NTamd64.6.0]".

Save it! First, run the Boot Camp 4.0 driver installer in order to install all the basic drivers (see below for more) and then run the "setup.exe" found in the Intel drivers folder -- if that fails, try running it using compatibility mode and with admin rights. This should make the Intel drivers install correctly and get rid of the annoying display bug!

After installing Windows, there are a couple of necessary (and optional) steps that make the Windows on a Mac experience just better: