Your Mac Can Run Windows!

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[jbnelson]

You should’ve made it more explicit that boot camp doesn’t work on Apple Silicon purely because Microsoft REFUSES to license Windows on ARM, and Apple has clearly stated Boot Camp would be brought back if Microsoft would license it out.

[patricklinkous]

When Apple released Boot Camp in 2006 I immediately installed XP on my iMac and played Half Life 2. Used that machine for years.

[Will_rd]

Been running Windows 10 on my MacBook 4, 1 for years now as the only operating system. Decent enough for casual web browsing use long after Apple dropped operating system support with 10.7.5

Full driver support from Microsoft and other vendors in Windows 10 is amazing for a piece of Apple hardware from 2008.

[TheRealWoofer]

Just so happens this is my exact situation. I am a converted previous employee and owner of many old iMacs and I’d love to turn one into a basic PC for my kids to use. Thanks for coincidentally covering exactly what I needed and making it seem easy 😁❤

[dstinnettmusic]

I don’t think Apple is that upset about the Hackintosh community. As long as nobody is selling them (and even then, you can find custom hackintosh builds for sale ranging from little nucs to Mac Pro competitors that have better specs at half the cost, and keep the mid 2000s Apple aesthetic if you want that.) and that doesn’t even mention Open Core Legacy Patcher, which makes an old Mac a really good budget PC option if your priorities are productivity and being able to leverage the Apple ecosystem. (And some light light gaming. I’ve played some Civ 6 on my late 2014 iMac)

Apple never leaned into open source as much as I would like…I feel like right as they got that initiative going, they got really big as a luxury brand and trendy consumer product company. So they just kind of let things like OpenDarwin whither away. But the hackintosh community is kind of the outcome of all that and I kind of think Apple has a soft spot for them because it would be pretty sleazy to squash it out just by being stricter with hardware compatibility. (And they seem to be doing that with the transition to M1)…but they could stop it all right now I’d they really wanted to.

[flumiie]

I've been thinking of getting parallels for quite some time, but given that it's just the issue of qualcomm not wanting Microsoft to release the ARM version,
It is safe to say that boot camp on silicon "supposed to work natively" with Windows ARM, just that it is locked for now

[JuanCAraujoS]

My daily desktop is an old 2007 Core2 Duo iMac. Since Apple no longer supports this hardware, and most security certificates just don't work, I installed Pop!_OS on it a year ago.
I became a Linux user since then, and I'm not going back.

[BrianJones-wkcx]

For those who don’t want the hassle of dual booting or the performance penalty of virtual machines, there is an updated version of Wineskin Winery to create wine wrappers for individual Windows apps. I’m able to play a nice little array of my Steam and GOG games within MacOS using this method. For those unfamiliar, think Wine for Linux, but in a more user friendly format for Mac users.

[Artak]

Hey finally a practical use for a Mac.

[alex.maxwell]

Guys, thanks for this video! It demonstrates how great stationary Macs have been before Apple Silicon transition because of this ability to run both OS - Mac and Windows whenever you want. But this transition has turned MacBooks (and other macs too) to the best power-to efficiency devices, which many of us appreciate. It would be perfect if the channel’s authors could test some eGPUs for Windows bootcamp gaming just to demonstrate how versatile Intel Macs can (I mean could) be😄

[bluetopia]

Very nice! How big is the chance that MS will lock out users that "work around" TPM and CPU limitation on Windows 11 someday?

[MacsAreUs]

I've been running windows on my mac since the power mac... :) I still haven't moved to the new ARC chip, despite being an iOS programmer, particularly because Windows is still way better for my online socialising (gaming). Especially since i stopped buying games from the App store and started using Steam. Best gaming decision i ever made... It got me through the pandemic in one mentally healthy piece. ;)

[jericoalba]

So how did you screen record the installation when the installation is done natively?

[faenethlorhalien]

I had serious issues installing W10 on my iMac with Fusion drive, to the point I gave up and bought a Windows pc in early 2018 to use as well. I know they're not used anymore, but back in 2017, Fusion drives (a logical drive created out of a combo of a smaller SSD for bootup and most used files, and a regular HD drive) won't work nicely with Windows, and this is no surprise. Windows wouldn't recognize the Fusion partition well and it would lead to no end of trouble. Like, more importantly, it not being able to access the Mac partition. Under regular HD drives (and I assume later SSD drives), you could natively read under windows from a Mac partition, and, with the proper drivers, you could even write data on them using Windows, if you needed to access data from the other partition, but that wasn't possible anymore if Mac OS was on a Fusion drive, at least early on, so I stopped trying to make the impossible possible and gave up. Now I have a multi computer setting.

[brianwoodcox]

I used to have a few regular customers at an old job selling macs who worked for FEMA. They needed the most reliable hardware possible, but had to run windows. They’d buy 15” MacBook Pros from me, and make the Mac OS X (this was 10+ years ago) partition as small as possible and never look at it again.

[mreggbird]

So, how well does this work for gaming then? Does this mean you can run all windows games?

[Bread-O-]

2:02
Whenever I try to do this, the bar gets stuck on Downloading Windows Support Software and refuses to move. Is there any way to fix this?

[vincentparanoid]

I love how they make it look so easy like 123 meanwhile boot camp on my old Mac isn’t working properly when I click continue it says I have to have a usb hard drive connected then I plug it in still doesn’t work

[robsavage]

Upgrading to Windows 11 is really easy with a simple work around. I've installed Windows 11 on a 2015 15 Inch Macbook Pro and a 2018 Mac Mini.

[makeitrainnaren]

I set up Windows ARM 2h22 build, using VMware Fusion Player that has a free license option. Then, you have to use some terminal commands to convert the windows iso file to a VMDK that VMware can read. Compared to shelling out cash for parallels, if you want a free option with a bit more elbow grease, it's much more worth it.