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Dec 22, 2015
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I am so confused about Windows 10 and boot camp support for my MP. Apple seems to say I can run the latest OS X El Capitan, but not Windows 10... Is that right? Why not Win 10? I'm so confused by the whole thing... I have been so out of the loop, I don't even know if my MP is still worth using with today's applications. My MP was actually born as a 2.66 quad, and I changed the cpu a week after getting it with a 3.33 quad, and I installed the GTX 285 for Mac. I am still running leopard (not snow) and I dual boot into Vista 32 bit... I no longer use Vista. The MP has 4 drives in it. Truthfully, I'm kind of afraid of installing a 64bit OS, thinking that any type of firmware update by Apple will render my leopard install and apps useless? Don't know. All of my work is in leopard and I don't want to break anything, but then again I also don't like using the old stuff... Confused, ugh!

Edit: Would it is be possible to keep my leopard install with all my apps and work in tact, and install snow leopard on another internal drive, update this to el cap, so I can now install Windows 10 on another drive with the latest boot camp? Will the leopard drive with all my work and apps still function? Will a firmware update from snow break the functionality of my main leopard drive?

Thanks for your help!!!
 
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