My Experience Running ONLY Windows on My MacBook Pro

For the past two weeks, my MacBook Pro has been a Windows 10 ONLY machine. Here's my experience turning my Apple laptop into a bonafide PC.

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[georgesuarez]

Oddly enough, my MacBook pro has been the longest-lasting Windows machine I've ever owned.

[polly]

I run both Catalina and Windows 10 and its pretty smooth .

[jamiltanelamparo]

The best part
Mac: can run Windows Legally and reliable
PC: can run macOS illegally and unreliable

[Clarity]

It might sound counter-intuitive at the start but when you think of it, Apple does get the best build quality and aesthetics among other laptop makers. Even though the cooling and affordability are kinda questionable and the touch bar is horrendous in Windows, it still makes one of the best options out there even if you run Windows on it.

[ElonMusk-FanZone]

You pay a high price to get Apple’s optimized software and you just overwrite it with Windows?? You could just buy a Dell...

[ALEGIONS]

I'm using it, and I'd recommend it.

[ajfromca]

I am a relatively new Mac user, I have been a Windows Admin (IT field) for the past 15 years and recently took a position as a Mac Admin about 6 months ago. Just about all of the ease of life "frustrations" you mentioned like the two finger click and keybindings you wanted to change to make things to your liking are the things that are driving me nuts the most with MacOS lol. We all seem to like our interfaces that we are used to :).

I really wish command shortcuts were not bound to the application, like if I want to hit command K to map a SMB I dont want to have to click in to finder or in the desktop first. On Windows you can hit Win+R no matter your application open, and control+key is more so your shortcuts that are bound within a specific application where for the Mac Command kinda does everything unless its Unix based like terminal where Control still does a lot. I personally find the ergonomics of Ctrl+key (like Ctrl+C for example) to feel better with reach ability, I feel Command+C (for instance) is so close together its hard for me to do it comfortably. This is probably due to that interface I am use to thing.

For the cursor speed, it feels like the cursor on MacOS is extremely slow when compared to windows and I noticed Windows has a much higher Mouse DPI range the MacOS so that is probably where you noticed the uncomfortable sensitivity, I always have to crank the Mouse cursor speed on MacOS for my liking.

It seems we are on opposite sides on this which I find interesting, I am using Mac with as many of the Windows "defaults" I can get and you are on Windows with as Many of the Mac "Defaults" you can get but I think we can both agree the hardware is great and that trackpad does not have any competition on the market by anyone.

Any who great video and it was exactly what I was looking for.

[evenslouis-charles]

Question: since you removed the MacOS partition, what's the process to re-install MacOS, in case you want to in the future? Can you make a video on that please?

[AbhimanyuSirothia]

Can you do a step-by-step walkthrough of whatever you did? Would be really helpful. I've thought about doing this at times when my primary work was to be done on Windows, but never had the best experience.

[eunicetorres]

I would love a look inside the MacBook Pro 16" 64gb, using virtual box for Windows 10. I currently have a 2015 pro Retina 2.2 GHz Quad-Core i7 16GB. I use IOS mostly for updating calendars and pictures but I use Windows 10 on a daily also for work. I love the way Virtual Box runs Windows 10 and continually updates any firmware/drivers without me needing to do this manually. For those that use bootcamp and do not like the updating and running only on OS at a time, I highly recommend Virtual Box. Over time I have used up more memory with the amount of applications I need to run on both windows OS and IOS. I split the memory in half 8gb each which for 8gb it runs great!

[ProximaNT]

I accidentally discovered that I can run fresh Windows on my MacBook pro.
So I took out my 1TB HDD from my dead laptop, and plugged it in my MacBook,
It litterally booted up on windows and everything, there is absolutely no Mac OSX in the drive or anything related to it.

[soots-stayingoutofthespotl]

I'm here 4 years later specifically to find out how Windows 10 or 11 scales, and how it works with Macbook screens. Here's some background to my enquiry: in the old days, if you deviated away from your screen's native resolution on any Windows machine, the resulting text was slightly blurry. And although many people could accept that, I definitely can't. The problem is that I want a new laptop and I've been used to using a relatively low-res 1366x768 screen for years, but they're quite rare now and I really don't want to go higher i.e. up to 1920 (aka Full HD) or 2560 (aka QHD/ 1440p). As this is a work and browsing machine only, the resulting text would be too small for me, and even though I understand that scaling has improved in the Windows operating system in recent years, deviating so far from the technical native resolution is probably going to bug me... unless it's an exact 2:1 scale.

By that, I'm referring to the way that Apple laptops have, say, a 2880 screen, but display the desktop at half that resolution, meaning everything is much bigger than it would be on a 2880 res Windows machine, presumably by using two pixels to one (i.e. retina display). So, I want to know if the latest Windows o/s can scale down to exactly match the current 2880 or 3072 res Apple laptop screens, and if so, is it pin sharp and have the icon-scaling issues from a few years back been solved now? Alternatively (and it has been impossible to find anything at all about this), will the latest WQXGA 2880x1800 laptop screens such as those fitted to Samsung's Windows laptops scale in the same way/ perfectly if I just forget MacBooks altogether?

[eriknelson]

Just installed windows 10 on my 2020 intel MacBook Pro! Needed windows for military purposes and it runs flawlessly!

[riroen]

I use bootcamp and I love it. On MacOS there isn't much that I can do. I generally use my laptop for gaming and using windows for this is so much better because on MacOS you are limited to the games that you can play and most of the time, the games that has a mac version are sometimes just not as good as the windows version.

[htoomyatzeyar]

For such people like me who loves apple products but some software I use for school available only on windows, that’s why I run Windows on Mac

[Carboxylated]

I have been using bootcamp for 2 months. I switch back and forth between both OS’s. For my professional and school life I use the mac side. For gaming and even creation I use the windows side. Its quite nice having two operating systems

[ilkoallexandroff]

I’m also using Windows almost 90% on my MacBook Pro, but when it comes to photo editing, I can’t thrust the colors on Windows under bootcamp, since they can’t be calibrated properly, and they are a bit off! That is when I’m switching to Mac to do my photography works! Well, I’m photographer might be a bit picky about colors! What do you think about the colors on Windows under bootcamp? Cheers from Japan!

[AloneinFiction]

Since my mac Os is like 4 years old I added windows 10 and it’s so damn beautiful!!! 👍🏻

[cxt]

I don't know if it's just me but Windows feels a lot more snappy on my MacBook Pro than macOS - also the Trackpad is a lot better than a lot of Windows Laptops like you already said.

[platypus_pratty]

There is a much better way of doing this.
1. Open bootcamp assistant
2. From the menu bar, click on bootcamp assistant --> Action. Click on download windows support software. You can specify where you want to download it.
3. Save the bootcamp's windows support software on a separate usb or hard drive.
4. You can now install a fresh copy of windows 10 on the mac (erasing the whole disk, putting windows 10 only).
5. Copy the windows support software that we saved on a separate usb, and run the bootcamp installer. It will install all the drivers for you.