I just finished installing Windows 10 on my 2009 Macbook Air - 1.86Ghz, Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, fitted a long time ago with an after market 60Gb OWC SSD.
When Yosemite was still on there - and running like a dog I might add - I booted in to the Recovery partition and formatted the Yosemite partition. This is not a Bootcamp install - I had to burn the Windows 10 ISO to a DVD drive and then install Windows 10 from the USB Superdrive. The windows 10 installer let me re format the main partition, but the OS X recovery partition is still there if I wish to go back.
Installing Windows 10 itself took quite a while, and post install it was pretty sluggish, plus the fan was going mad. However after some time it settled right down.
I then tried various flavours of Bootcamp, all of which Apple had helpfully crippled in the installer and wouldn't install for no good reason. Eventually though the Bootcamp 4 drivers installed when run in Compatibility mode.
So now on the Apple front, none of the keys for changing screen,volume or keyboard backlight work. But the trackpad, wireless, bluetooth are all working - although the bluetooth cannot be disabled or I cant find out how
Screen brightness can only be adjusted via the Nvidia Control Panel. Battery life is only about 2-2.5 hours but then this is a 6+ year old machine and its been around a bit!
There was one 'coprocessor' device listed in Windows device manager as having no driver, but I just pointed the Windows driver update tool at the Bootcamp folder and that fixed itself.
Windows 10 itself runs like an absolute champ. It is way snappier than Yosemite was on this geriatric machine, as long as you accept that the fixed 2Gb of memory is always going to be a limiting factor, and the fans like to spin up and down sometimes.
With Windows 10 and MS Office 2016b installed, plus a few other bits, there's 34Gb of free space on the SSD.
Overall though I'm really impressed with how Windows 10 performs, its by no means sluggish at all!
When Yosemite was still on there - and running like a dog I might add - I booted in to the Recovery partition and formatted the Yosemite partition. This is not a Bootcamp install - I had to burn the Windows 10 ISO to a DVD drive and then install Windows 10 from the USB Superdrive. The windows 10 installer let me re format the main partition, but the OS X recovery partition is still there if I wish to go back.
Installing Windows 10 itself took quite a while, and post install it was pretty sluggish, plus the fan was going mad. However after some time it settled right down.
I then tried various flavours of Bootcamp, all of which Apple had helpfully crippled in the installer and wouldn't install for no good reason. Eventually though the Bootcamp 4 drivers installed when run in Compatibility mode.
So now on the Apple front, none of the keys for changing screen,volume or keyboard backlight work. But the trackpad, wireless, bluetooth are all working - although the bluetooth cannot be disabled or I cant find out how
Screen brightness can only be adjusted via the Nvidia Control Panel. Battery life is only about 2-2.5 hours but then this is a 6+ year old machine and its been around a bit!There was one 'coprocessor' device listed in Windows device manager as having no driver, but I just pointed the Windows driver update tool at the Bootcamp folder and that fixed itself.
Windows 10 itself runs like an absolute champ. It is way snappier than Yosemite was on this geriatric machine, as long as you accept that the fixed 2Gb of memory is always going to be a limiting factor, and the fans like to spin up and down sometimes.
With Windows 10 and MS Office 2016b installed, plus a few other bits, there's 34Gb of free space on the SSD.
Overall though I'm really impressed with how Windows 10 performs, its by no means sluggish at all!