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Windows 11 on my MBP?

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dantracht

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Sorry if this was asked and answered before, but....

I'm new to this.....but wanted to try windows 11 on my 2015 MBP. Looks like I can't get windows 11 (no more PCs in my household) on any of my macs using BootCamp if I tried?

Oh well....sorry Microsoft.

Kinda ridiculous if you ask me.
 
dantracht said:
if I tried?
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Macs fail the requirements of having TPM 2.0, so you are correct - you cannot run windows 11 natively. I could be wrong, but I believe Parallels and VMware have a "virtual tpm " so you may be able to use windows virtually.
 
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Got Windows 11 running on Bootcamp on my iMac 27" 2020 without too much hassle. Had to do a small regedit during installation to work round the TPM 2.0 issue, but once over that a pretty smooth install which is working fine.
 
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macmedal said:
Had to do a small regedit during installation to work round the TPM 2.0 issue,
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Updates may break that - For some odd reason while rocking the windows 11 beta on my PC, my TPM 2.0 was turned off in the bios (not sure how that happened) and an update just stopped working. Took me a little while to figure out that TPM 2.0 was off. For Macs, not sure if that could represent a show stopper or not
 
macmedal said:
Got Windows 11 running on Bootcamp on my iMac 27" 2020 without too much hassle. Had to do a small regedit during installation to work round the TPM 2.0 issue, but once over that a pretty smooth install which is working fine.
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good for you,
i cant even get windows11 on my Dell XSP 13" 2019.

but i should not worry nones:
"Great news—your PC meets the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. Specific timing for when it will be offered can vary as we get it ready for you?

why use the word "it", the word is so lazy and blah, say operating system or upgrade.
does Linux promoters use that word as well?

then Gordon Mah Ung tweeted :
"I would wait for Dell to give you the go ahead. Drivers, UEFI and firmware matters."
I realized this is my first windows upgrade, evahs, while I did 3 OS X this week
 
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Yes will wait and see what happens when updates come along may well cause me issues, but can always go back to Windows 10 if that happens. Only use it for gaming.
maflynn said:
Updates may break that - For some odd reason while rocking the windows 11 beta on my PC, my TPM 2.0 was turned off in the bios (not sure how that happened) and an update just stopped working. Took me a little while to figure out that TPM 2.0 was off. For Macs, not sure if that could represent a show stopper or not
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I am running Win 11 Pro on my 2020 intel 16G MacBook Pro in a Parallels VM. I have 8GB memory allocated to the VM
 
maflynn said:
Macs fail the requirements of having TPM 2.0, so you are correct - you cannot run windows 11 natively. I could be wrong, but I believe Parallels and VMware have a "virtual tpm " so you may be able to use windows virtually.
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Correct (at least for Parallels 17)

The straightforward way of installing direct from Microsoft is blocked for Silicon Macs because of unsupported processor, but you can make an ISO for build 22000.160 with UUPDump and install that in a new VM, then it will update to 22000.194, the Windows 11 release build, without being blocked.
 
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bobcomer said:
You should be able to. My 2018 XPS 15 runs it.


Who says you have to wait until it's offered?
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Gordon Mah Ung- PC World Guru:
via twitter:
I would wait for Dell to give you the go ahead. Drivers, UEFI and firmware matters.

thank you for the reply though!
since I never did a windows update, I should wait
 
Maybe in the future TPM 2.0 requirement becomes more "real", but so far it can be bypassed. I develop some MacBook drivers for Windows 11 (Trackpad++ for example, see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/trackpad-alternate-trackpad-driver-for-bootcamp.1497761/page-25), and obviously to do that I had to get Windows 11 installed first :)
Here is the method which worked for me...
Assuming you don't have Boot Camp setup yet:
1. Download official 64-bit Windows 10 ISO image from Microsoft (Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10)
2. In macOS Use "Boot Camp Assistant" app and feed it with downloaded ISO image in order to initialize and install the Boot Camp environment normally.
3. When Windows 10 is up and running, go to AveYo MCT GitHub and from there download / unzip the zip archive (you might need to click the "Code" button on that page in order to see the zip download option).
4. From the folder where you unpacked that zip, run "MCT/Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update_v2.cmd".
5. From the same folder, run "MediaCreationTool.bat" (a window titled "MCT Version" should appear).
There choose "11". Another window will appear, there choose "Auto Setup", this will download Windows 11 21H2 and install it for you on top of your Windows 10 Boot Camp environment.
 
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Can 2015 MacBook Pro dual graphics run Windows 11 ? thought Microsoft didn't want to make 11, but i GUESS they lied and did it.
 
I managed to install Windows 11 on an old PC without TPM/Secure Boot, also the CPU is not supported (7th Gen Intel i5). The trick is to hack the registry during the installation process. I think this should be working same for Mac.

This is the complete tutorial with screenshots: https://www.uubyte.com/this-pc-can-not-run-windows-11.html

P.S Check the Part 2 as Rufus method does not fix the issue in my case. However, you can try it first as I see many folks recommend it.

BTW, you have to convert the partition to GPT when installing Windows 11 on it.


Before doing anything, please back up your data first.
 
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