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Actually it will not. When it restarts and boots into Windows installation i can't use the bootcamp partition because it says its of GPT style. I have to actually reboot and hold Option key then select EFI boot to fix it.

But that doest matter since Windows 10 is a complete pile of *********.

That's an issue with your hardware then. Do as the onscreen instructions say and it runs smoothly. It will also work with a DVD, don't know what the hell the OP is on about saying it won't work.

As for it being a pile of crap? Really, it's faster and smoother on my machine than the last 4 version of OX Bloat.
 
I keep hearing the accusation that the Bootcamp drivers suck. Any truth to this, or is this Windows propaganda?
 
Only the touchpad driver sucks, everything else is very good actually.
Why would that be Windows propaganda against someone who actually provides drivers for their OS? That doesn't make sense.
 
I'm genuinely stuck at the moment deciding whether to buy a retina MacBook Pro or a Dell XPS 13 for running Windows 10.

The upside of the Mac is clearly the best physical enclosure, best trackpad etc, but I'm concerned the battery life will be much poorer when running Windows 10 natively through BootCamp. Has anyone got experience of this?
 
If you are thinking of only running Windows then you should get the Dell. Windows does run good on a Mac but battery life is poor (especially 15" with dGPU) and the touchpad driver that Apple provides is very poor.
 
I set up Win 10 on a newly purchased 13" MBA. The only quibble I have is with the initial Bootcamp setup: While running Bootcamp Assistant (still on the OS X side), I selected the Windows 10 ISO file and my USB stick.

I get to a window with a progress bar which instantly jumped to about 30%, then to about 40% and stuck there for about an hour before jumping to 60%. It took ages, but it all went through fairly peachy in the end.

For tasks which are likely not to take trivial amounts of time, I would much rather have a percentage indicator, a verbose log, or at least some sort of movement (blue barberpole anybody?) so I know the process hasn't stalled entirely.

P
 
Same here with a late 2013 Mac Pro.
I tried again after hearing the Boot Camp Assistant was updated in El Capitan, but same issue.

No matter what I do, Windows gets as far in the installation as the screen where you select/format partitions, and then I can't get it to actually install Windows into the selected and formatted partition it should be installing into.

I did some Googling on this and found a guy talking about a way to manually get the partition created in a way Windows 10 is happy with, but it involved booting to "PowerShell" from the Windows disc (or image) and issuing a number of command line commands. (They were rather dangerous too, as it was easy to do something wrong and accidentally clobber your OS X partition.)


I tried to run bootcamp a while back but have never been able to as I always get an error when it's running the partitioning part.
 
Unless you're saying parental controls are just broken and not working as advertised? It sounds to me like they're actually supposed to be improved in Windows 10 over earlier versions?

http://www.howtogeek.com/225323/how-to-add-and-monitor-a-childs-account-in-windows-10/

Now Windows 10 isn't horrible; generally it is OK, but in some cases it is a mess. Don't bother with parental controls, those are gone. Non-administrator account; talk about painful. I still like it better than Windows 8, but I prefer to stick to Windows 7.
 
If you look at one of my posts there's a link I put there that's got heaps of information about Bootcamp, it also lets you know which models support Windows 10.

More specifically than MacRumors has done so? Because the same vagueness that they've done so with is useless to me. And if so, where?
 
So I have to install Windows on my iMac 5k, because some software I really need doesn't support Mac :(

It looks like through bootcamp it's fairly easily done, however, is there an easy way to switch between the Mac and Windows without having to restart the Mac?
 
Use a Virtual Machine (VM) such as VmWare Fusion or Parallels and run Windows in a OS X window.

VmWare will allow you to use your BootCamp installation as a VM or bootable ... Parallels might also.
 
Sadly though, they say that even these things doesn't stop them. They continue to collect the information and will continue to do so. Now Windows 10 isn't horrible; generally it is OK, but in some cases it is a mess. Don't bother with parental controls, those are gone. Non-administrator account; talk about painful. I still like it better than Windows 8, but I prefer to stick to Windows 7.

Speaking of which. Can you still use an original copy of Windows 7 with the latest incoming iMacs?

Re: Win 10. Do you download it to a TN drive and install that on Bootcamp when prompted? Burn a DVD?

And yes. The constant churn of updates/privacy. Can you turn of updates (as in non-automatic...) and 'data' collection?

Azrael.
 
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