Last night, I decided to try a fun little experiment: installing a Windows 11 Boot Camp partition on one of my Intel Macs! For this, I chose my 2015 Retina 15" MacBook Pro (11,4) with 2.2 GHz quad-core fourth-gen i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, a 512 GB SSD and Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics. I followed the instructions from this webpage...
www.androidsage.com
The big difference was that the Monterey 12.3.1 Boot Camp Assistant would not create a USB installer; I'd just load the Windows 11 ISO into the Assistant and let it work from there; I partitioned the SSD for 300 GB for Windows 11, and the remaining 200 GB for Mac OS 12 Monterey, as I would largely be using Windows 11 on it.
Because of that Retina display, the Windows installer had some pretty small windows. But among following the instructions and editing the registry information...
...the installation was under way!
I could not get it online until the Boot Camp drivers and such finished installing, but it was worth it.
Aside from, the different, vaguely Chrome OS-influenced interface (which I'm sure I will get used to), it's not that much different from Windows 10. This confused me and some co-workers on why they'd make it so Windows 11 had steeper requirements, when performance and such is not that much different from Windows 10? Software and drivers designed for Windows 10 are largely compatible with Windows 11, too.
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www.androidsage.com
The big difference was that the Monterey 12.3.1 Boot Camp Assistant would not create a USB installer; I'd just load the Windows 11 ISO into the Assistant and let it work from there; I partitioned the SSD for 300 GB for Windows 11, and the remaining 200 GB for Mac OS 12 Monterey, as I would largely be using Windows 11 on it.
Because of that Retina display, the Windows installer had some pretty small windows. But among following the instructions and editing the registry information...
...the installation was under way!
I could not get it online until the Boot Camp drivers and such finished installing, but it was worth it.
Aside from, the different, vaguely Chrome OS-influenced interface (which I'm sure I will get used to), it's not that much different from Windows 10. This confused me and some co-workers on why they'd make it so Windows 11 had steeper requirements, when performance and such is not that much different from Windows 10? Software and drivers designed for Windows 10 are largely compatible with Windows 11, too.