Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support

[Caesar_091]

And again, like for 2006 MP and Win7, they dropped 2009-2012 MP with this update.... amazing!
That's Apple, damn Apple!

WTF

 

[JustThinkin']

I'm really curious to know why mid-2012 is their cut-off point. I don't recall some huge architecture leap that year which would serve as the Maginot Line for before/after with this Boot Camp/Windows 10 issue. Can anyone?

The Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro is still a current model, so I guess they pretty much had to go back to 2012.

Incidentally, yesterday I noticed that all the Apple Techs still use this model at the Genius Bar. It's also used in many applications where a built-in DVD player is still desired, such as churches and other places that use them for presentation. So maybe it will stay around a little longer.

 

[JustThinkin']

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.

Thanks, I couldn't find it within Windows 10, so I'm trying that method now.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

And again, like for 2006 MP and Win7, they dropped 2009-2012 MP with this update.... amazing!
That's Apple, damn Apple!

WTF

The drivers for older Mac Pros are already included with Windows and Bootcamp 5.1 so Apple didn't need to provide them again.

 

[MJedi]

Well, I am running Windows 10 on my 2011 MacBook Air. I used Boot Camp software 5.1.5621. I don't know if Windows 10 is working on an unsupported Mac because I had upgraded it from Windows 7. I reinstalled the Boot Camp drivers included in 5.1.5621 after the upgrade. I wonder what would happen if I tried to install Windows 10 from the Boot Camp Assistant.

 

[pat500000]

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.

what program did you use? parallel?

 

[pat500000]

They want to upgrade to a newer model. The same happened with Win8 too. (Of course, it was possible to _hack_ pre-2010 models to accept Win8. The OS running on those devices was just intentionally dumbed down to force people to upgrade. Which is pretty typical for Apple.)

in business wise..i can understand it. Let's talk about consumer point of view. It's still working...and plus..i'm waiting for revise Mac pro....

 

[Durentis]

Neat. Just reverted the other day with the lack of support for the D700 as my reason and that little MS app has been bugging me to re-update since (and constantly trying to redownload it). Thought I'd have to wait a month or more.

Wonder if the driver update will fix the random hard lockup whenever both cards run together. (CrossfireX, Folding@Home, .. - heat related?)

Thanks, Apple!

 

[Menneisyys2]

And again, like for 2006 MP and Win7, they dropped 2009-2012 MP with this update.... amazing!
That's Apple, damn Apple!

WTF

FYI: we're speaking of notebooks costing a LOT more than comparable WinTel ones. Therefore, we want significantly more longevity than from a cheap WinTel notebook. If technically there are no barriers in the way of adding proper Win10 support, then, we'd prefer Apple to allow for official Win10 installation, and not via extensive manual hacking, as was the case with Win8.

 

[Menneisyys2]

what program did you use? parallel?

Parallels (if you meant that) has nothing to do with BootCamp. He/she must have used some kind of a hack.

 

[Serban]

here in Romania no updates are release...wtf?

 

[Snookerman]

Is this why I still haven't gotten notified to install Windows 10 on my 8.1 partition? I thought it was because I don't use Windows very often, but maybe it was waiting for Boot Camp to update?

 

[marcelvelky]

Thanks, I'll try that.

yes, that is the information .) i am running it on mini and it works pretty much very fast .)

 

[bigjohn]

unfortunately the new mac pro doesn't support windows 7 which is troubling

 

[omenatarhuri]

Been using boot camp with win10 for many months already with no issues. Hopefully this official support won't jinx it.

 

[SteveW928]

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?

Typical Microsoft geek-out feature... not well THOUGHT OUT. It makes sense on a phone, not so much on a laptop or desktop.

 

[CFreymarc]

Typical Microsoft geek-out feature... not well THOUGHT OUT. It makes sense on a phone, not so much on a laptop or desktop.

Exactly. I bet this is why Apple never put Siri on Mac OS X. Talking is a personal action that is done with the body in several positions besides sitting. If anything having Siri do actions on a Mac via iOS devices with a second generation Hand-Off may work.

 

[rigormortis]

did you hear about the new and streamlined and improved and brand new innovative feature of windows 10 that shows ads while your playing windows solitaire???

microsoft wants to charge you $2 a month to get rid of the advertisements.

why would anyone want this feature?

no thank you, I'm not touching windows 10

 

[GreyOS]

Does this make the touchpad a 'precision' one in Windows meaning it can use the new windows gestures?

 

[marcelvelky]

yes, that is the information .) i am running it on mini and it works pretty much very fast .)

noticed someone?

 

[Geekazoid]

Well, that's just fantastic! This means that I can install Windows 10 on my MacBook Air (2012) if I want to.

 

[Geekazoid]

Windows 10 runs solid within a VM with only 2GB of RAM and 2 processor cores. It must fly when utilizing the entire system

Flying Windows, you've gotta watch out for those ones.

 

[satcomer]

My 2010 machine runs Windows 10 better than Yosemite or El Capitan

Right, pull the other leg!

 

[H2SO4]

It seems they don't like supporting older hardware much with bootcamp. 2011 macbook pros and older should be perfectly capable of running windows 10, not to mention the older Mac Pro's.

Apple are just being Apple. They have a great record of dropping support ‘prematurely’. Not just with Bootcamp. FYI the original Mac Pro will run Win 10.

 

[dusk007]

They made an entire computer, actually 32 different models of them, completely and officially compatible with Windows 10 within 3 days.

There are manufacturers that can't get their ONE device to get Windows 10 compatibility that fast.

It is more like 13 days not 3 and this sounds like you think they start working on it when 10 launches. They had plenty of time before launch to get everything ready. It is also not a whole lot of work, given that the only new thing they need is a graphics driver that they don't provide anyway. There are also plenty of manufacturers that were ready on day one to ship Windows 10 hardware and support it even before it launched.