Actually mbp 16 is very good for gaming, i did used egpu with turboboost off and the machine was like 60C while heavy gaming so no issue
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MacBooks Running Windows Gain Improved Trackpad Support With Boot Camp Update
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I was really tempted to go with the mob 16 but picked the iMac because I was concerned about heat. I have the 2020 iMac with the 5700 XT and it was better than a dedicated water cooled Windows tower that was running an Nvidia 9800 Ti card. I installed Windows on an external SSD with Bootcamp (found instructions online) so I don't have to use my precious internal Mac storage. Fans were more quiet on the iMac and it was smoother. I don't know how the ATI card could handle that performance in such a small space. Played for hours and the fans were noticeable but not anything crazy.
My only complaint is the iMac speakers don't get loud in Windows so I had to do my own speakers.
Lets try to think this one through. Let me see, hmmmm, the T2 chip handles disk encryption/decryption and boot camp is a known attach vector. Might the reason have something to do with this? That might lead to having to have different versions of bootcamp. Well there now seem to be different versions. Will the older version get the same update later? Time will tell.
Of course, I'm an\m just using logic on why this was necessary - seem very plausible
Your previous comment seems to suggest that the T2 chip plays a role in trackpad gestures. 🙄
I also think it has something to do with encryption/decruyption which is done on T2 chip. Bootcamp is a known attack vector, so there seem to be reasons for dual versions of bootcamp. will the older version get updated as well? Who knows. And you are entirely correct, there are valid reasons for it, even if not intuitively obvious to the lay person (which is us)
no, it kind of implies it has something to do with the security processing, you know, something like encryption/decryption (oh wait, that is the T2 chip), and seeing how bootcamp is a known attack vector, makes sense. So two versions of bootcamp, one released to address trackpad gestures (also the list of computers supporting Monterey), so obviously the teams were working on this. Now the question is will they back fill support on older Macs? Maybe, Maybe not, sprat bootcamp, separate issue
If the T2 chips plays a part in trackpad support. What about the older Macbooks which do not have the T2 chip but offers the same trackpad support and gestures as the newer ones with the T2 chip and M1.
Apple could have added the better trackpad support to older Macbooks without the T2 chip if they put their mind to it. They simply chose not to. This is just like how they did not make some features available on the Intel Macs. Even simple features like 3D map, an interactive globe and etc.
What other reason is there? They are simply lazy and do not care.
Some users even made third party drivers which mimic the normal macOS gestures for their Windows Mac. If they can do it why can't Apple?
This update is actually a long overdue one.
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Intel gets better mouse tracking AND Boot Camp while Apple Silicon just gets a spinning globe
The world just ain’t fair, I tells ya.
I tried boot camp once or maybe twice and the trackpad driver was so bad, about time they made it good.
infosec analyst here - short version no. Longer version - they'd have to pump EVERY last bit of data flowing through windows into the T2 chip to help close off a known attack vector to act as sort of a hardware AV (which I believe you are suggesting it does) which it absolutely cannot handle. So...no. Plausible it's handling encryption on windows, but I highly doubt it. Also Apple isn't going to have their uber proprietary chip handle ANYTHING to do with Windows. Ain't gonna happen.
How dare they not provide this feature for M1 macs! Now the M1’s are already obsolete!
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Surely this is a clear indicator that another Intel-based Mac is on the way!
Omg its not just ‘better drivers’ macrumors, it’s windows precision you doughnuts.
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It is working ok. I stopped using it because I could do what I still needed in windows apps with Crossover. Only issue with Windows on Arm for me was lack of driver support for 3rd party devices.
Now they just need a little pow wow with MS to get it working on Apple Silicon lol. Maybe they're saving it for Windows 11? lol.
I do like to remind people there is already a project out there that create Windows Precision Touchpad drivers for wide range of MacBooks and Magic Trackpads including models that don’t have a T2 chips inside, and the entire project is made by a single person.
There are multiple fancy 3rd-party trackpad drivers for older MacBook Pro models, and even my Chromebook running Windows has fancy precision touchpad drivers developed by the community.
Apple choosing to make their new drivers only for Macs with T2 is 100% planned obsolescence. They have direct access to the hardware and original source code, yet can't accomplish what some kid in their mom's basement is capable of?
Yeah to say trackpad drivers need additional hardware is silly and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how computers in general work. But I mean what can you expect after decades of Apple dumbing down their products?
Fun fact. In the earlier Macs (80s era), the mouse pointer was controlled by an indepedent chip, not relying on the CPU at all to keep the pointer responsive and positioned on-screen. That slowly changed over the years, and I'm wondering if this is a return to that, where the T2 chip (which is a SoC, not just a simple chip), takes over some of the pointer-handling functions?
Lol, no “side loaded insinuation” (chill, dude) just an acknowledgment of the obvious: Apple’s development priorities are shifting to their native processor.