Business reasons, as usual. Hope the earlier models will be hackable, as was with Win8.
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Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support
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Business reasons, as usual. Hope the earlier models will be hackable, as was with Win8.
That is what I'm waiting on. Parallels has one of the better UIs out there for this. Very curious to see how they hand the Cortana (what a screwed up name for voice recognition) interface.
Might as well start on the desktop voice rec bitch-slap band wagon. For almost 40 years, people have a habit to be quite and work on their computers with the exception of a voice call. Now you expect the same user crowd to talk with their PC?
Apple seems to give little to nothing about older machines. Once the sale is done its over. I own a Macbook 3,1 running Mountain Lion (ML POST factor, and now windows 10) none of those two OS are supported yet the Core 2 Duo is MORE then capable of handling them. And yes it is sad that Acer and HP is selling Intel Atoms, and Pentium series machines as well as celerons that are worse then my machine and they are supported. thats sad apple. So much for customer service. Seems like once apple sells the machine they dont care much after that. Aside from that i love the machine but its sad that apple ended support for so many systems that can handle new systems.
Is the mocking of Windows really necessary? While I prefer OS X, there is no denying that Windows 10 is a vast improvement. From what I've seen, it blows Yosemite out of the water as far as performance goes. Hopefully El Capitan with Metal and fix this for modern Macs.
I'm assuming that the cutoff starts from mid-2012 because apparently Intel dropped support for Intel HD Graphics 3000 on Windows 10. Just my 2 cents.
Of course you can still install Windows 10 without Apple's Bootcamp help. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
Of course you can still install Windows 10 without Apple's Bootcamp help. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
I've got Boot Camp 5 software working just fine on my mid 2009 MacBook Pro in Windows 10. The only issues I have are getting the fn keys functional in Win 10. Otherwise, it's pretty good. I just upgraded from Windows 7 within the OS.
Yes.
Respect the old school Macintards here. When you were in diapers, we were hacking the original Macintosh 128K to a "fat mac" with a soldering iron and a ROM emulator.
I was in Windows when Apple Update Installer notified me of the Bootcamp update. I have a mid 2014 machine.
Makes sense. But I'm sure this won't stop the people on here from whining about Apple not supporting it, calling them "greedy" and whatnot. I wish people would stop using that word. 99% of the time, it isn't used correctly, or correct in its insinuation.
Installed Windows 10 on my 2009 17" Macbook Pro fine. Had no trackpad drivers, but eventually got it working digging through older bootcamp drivers.
All good now!
Also installed Windows 10 on a 2011 iMac. I think it found all the drivers on it, but don't recall now.
Has anyone been able to test TB support? Can we finally run TWO TB monitors natively in bootcamp, also hot plug and play of TB devices?
Is this the update that thunderbolt users have been dreaming of for years?
Is this the update that thunderbolt users have been dreaming of for years?
The article is telling you that Apple doesn't provide support for Windows 10 on your machine, not that it won't run.
New Bootcamp 6 drivers worked fine for me by updating the old Bootcamp prepared Windows 8.1 installer thumb drive using Boot Camp Assistant, then running the Bootcamp install files off that in Windows 10.
Didn't seem to want to download within Windows 10 for me.
Didn't seem to want to download within Windows 10 for me.
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There seem to be newly posted bootcamp support files here: https://support.apple.com/en_AU/downloads/bootcamp
They're labeled as being bootcamp 5.1 but they were uploaded to apple's servers today. They say they're for windows 7, 8 and 8.1 but don't say what machines they support. Weird.
They're labeled as being bootcamp 5.1 but they were uploaded to apple's servers today. They say they're for windows 7, 8 and 8.1 but don't say what machines they support. Weird.
