Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iMac Pro and Windows.

H

Hamsammich18

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 17, 2017
2
0
I haven't seen it one way or another in the specs. Is there any reason not to believe this will run Boot Camp? The T2 chip is giving me the willies. And the new Vega GPUs. I'm worried they'll either drop Boot Camp or be so late with rolling out the appropriate drivers it will be moot for me. I'm largely Mac-based but do have one or two Windows apps I need to run--and a hardware decision to make relatively shortly.

Best,

Marshall
 
Hamsammich18 said:
Is there any reason not to believe this will run Boot Camp?
Click to expand...
The 2016 (and 2017) iMacs have the T1 chip and can run windows, so I'd say its fairly reasonable to expect the iMac Pro to have that ability. Since we're talking about a product that has not fully gotten into the hands of the customers yet, I'd say wait and see what people say once they have them
 
maflynn said:
The 2016 (and 2017) iMacs have the T1 chip and can run windows, so I'd say its fairly reasonable to expect the iMac Pro to have that ability. Since we're talking about a product that has not fully gotten into the hands of the customers yet, I'd say wait and see what people say once they have them
Click to expand...
I did not know the 2017 iMac has a T1. There was no 2016. Are you referring to the 2016-17 MBP?
 
Yes, probably a slip of the tongue. T1 = MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Perhaps someone could @ reply one of the people who received an early review unit and ask?

It does give pause to consider that T2 does require another Mac to restore it if a system upgrade goes wrong (though I'm not sure if that is only with all the security turned on), so how would it feel to be forced to boot an alien operating system!
 
Thank you for that reassuring link!

I wonder if the Boot Camp assistant blesses the Windows volume as secure during setup?

Now I'm just going to panic about whether there are any implications for running an external Windows volume off a Samsung T5, as that is how I justified only configuring a 1TB internal SSD. Always got to worry about something!
 
I'm assuming that Parallels should be able to run Windows virtually with some decent response, since there's plenty of video RAM and plenty of cores available to give to the virtual machines. I'd love to see some benchmarks of that compared with a top-end iMac. Way easier to do that rather than Bootcamp if there's enough power.
 
Why not just run a VM. Boot camp is much less convenient, and it you go with 64GB of RAM or more it will perform great.
 
At onevtime I read where Apple may change processors that aren’t compatible with windows. After retiring and not being in the Apple world I just haven’t kept up. But with my Alienware machine over 6 years old and all of a sudden my old Doom 3 game video shudders and something I haven’t put my finger on is wrong. Just wait till it dies I guess and make the plunge back to the fold but don’t want to give up all my old games plus want some power that still will handle new things a few years down the road.
 
Bigdog9586 said:
At onevtime I read where Apple may change processors that aren’t compatible with windows. After retiring and not being in the Apple world I just haven’t kept up. But with my Alienware machine over 6 years old and all of a sudden my old Doom 3 game video shudders and something I haven’t put my finger on is wrong. Just wait till it dies I guess and make the plunge back to the fold but don’t want to give up all my old games plus want some power that still will handle new things a few years down the road.
Click to expand...

All Macs are still running x86_64 Intel chips. There's word floating around that the iMac Pro also contains an A10 Fusion but it's not confirmed yet. There's also a T2 chip in the iMac Pro that is likely not fully supported in Windows, but it won't influence how the machine works under Windows. Just not add the extra security benefit that comes with the T2 chip under macOS. As a result of the T2 chip however, you will most likely need to approve the Windows installation from within macOS before it'll work, but it should still work no problem.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bigdog9586
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back