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Boot CampBy MacRumors Staff on August 22, 2022Jump to How Tos ArticlesBoot Camp How TosHow to Install Windows 10 on Your Mac Using Boot Camp AssistantTuesday November 10, 2015 2:00 pm PST by Lory GilFollowing the launch of Windows
Table of Contents
- 1. Boot Camp How Tos
- 2. How to Install Windows 10 on Your Mac Using Boot Camp Assistant
- 3. Boot Camp Articles
- 4. Apple Updates Boot Camp With WiFi Improvements and Bug Fixes
- 5. Apple Updates Boot Camp to Support Studio Display
- 6. MacBooks Running Windows Gain Improved Trackpad Support With Boot Camp Update
- 7. Apple References Unreleased 2020 16-Inch MacBook Pro in Boot Camp Update
- 8. AMD Releases Boot Camp Drivers for 16-Inch MacBook Pro With Radeon Pro 5600M Graphics
- 9. Rosetta Won't Support x86 Virtualization Apps Running Windows
- 10. Microsoft Outlines Issue With Windows 10 Updates for Older Macs, Solution Coming This Month
- 11. Apple Updates Boot Camp Drivers to Fix Major Issue Causing Blown Speakers on New MacBook Pros [Updated]
- 12. MacBook Pro's Touch Bar Will Display Function Keys When Running Windows With Boot Camp
- 13. OWC's Entire SSD Lineup for Mac Now Supports Boot Camp
- 14. USB Drives No Longer Required to Install Windows with Boot Camp in OS X El Capitan
- 15. Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support
- 16. Videos
- 17. Guides
- 18. Upcoming
- 19. Other Stories
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Boot Camp How Tos
How to Install Windows 10 on Your Mac Using Boot Camp Assistant
Tuesday November 10, 2015 2:00 pm PST by Lory Gil
Following the launch of Windows 10, Apple updated Boot Camp to support the latest Windows operating system on select Mac computers from 2012 and newer. If you've always wanted to try Windows on your Mac and think that now is the time to finally take the plunge, we can help you get through the basics with our how-to guide for installing Windows 10 on your Mac using Apple's Boot Camp Assistant....
Boot Camp Articles
Apple Updates Boot Camp With WiFi Improvements and Bug Fixes
Monday August 22, 2022 10:41 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today released a new version of Boot Camp, the software that allows Windows to be run on Intel-based Macs. Boot Camp 6.1.16 is a bug fix update that addresses minor issues, and it is replacing the prior 6.1.12 update that fixed stability issues with Bluetooth and WiFi drivers.
According to the release notes for the update, the software introduces WiFi WPA3 support and it fixes a...
Apple Updates Boot Camp to Support Studio Display
Sunday March 20, 2022 5:40 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple this week released an update for Boot Camp, its solution for running Windows on Intel-based Macs, to support the newly-launched Studio Display.
Boot Camp Update 6.1.17, released to the public earlier this week, adds support for the Studio Display and updates drivers for AMD and Intel GPUs. To update to the latest Boot Camp drivers, users need to navigate to the Start menu in Windows...
MacBooks Running Windows Gain Improved Trackpad Support With Boot Camp Update
Friday June 11, 2021 7:36 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple this week released Boot Camp version 6.1.15 for users running Windows on a Mac, as noted in a Reddit post spotted by The Verge.
The update adds support for more precise trackpad gestures on MacBooks running Windows, including a single tap to click, tapping the lower-right corner to right-click, swiping down to scroll up, and various multi-touch gestures using three or four fingers....
Apple References Unreleased 2020 16-Inch MacBook Pro in Boot Camp Update
Monday October 26, 2020 8:42 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Last week, Apple released an update for Boot Camp, its utility for running Windows on a Mac. While this update would typically be unremarkable, several of our readers noticed that the release notes reference an unreleased 2020 model of the 16-inch MacBook Pro.
While this could easily be a mistake, the 16-inch MacBook Pro is nearly a year old, so it is certainly a worthy candidate for a...
AMD Releases Boot Camp Drivers for 16-Inch MacBook Pro With Radeon Pro 5600M Graphics
Tuesday June 30, 2020 5:42 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
As noted on Reddit, AMD has released Boot Camp drivers for the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 5600M graphics, providing full compatibility with Windows 10.
Introduced earlier this month as a $700 upgrade, Apple says the 5600M graphics with 8GB of HBM2 memory are up to 75 percent faster than the 5500M graphics with 4GB of GDDR6 memory in the base model 16-inch MacBook Pro.
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Rosetta Won't Support x86 Virtualization Apps Running Windows
Tuesday June 23, 2020 3:35 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple yesterday announced plans to build future Macs with its own custom silicon chips, and to ease the transition away from Intel processors, Apple revived the "Rosetta" feature that allowed PowerPC apps to run on Intel processors during the PowerPC to Intel transition.
Now revived, Rosetta will allow users to run apps that contain x86_64 instructions on Apple silicon, which means...
Microsoft Outlines Issue With Windows 10 Updates for Older Macs, Solution Coming This Month
Tuesday July 2, 2019 7:14 am PDT by Mitchel Broussard
Microsoft is facing an issue with Windows 10 updates for Mac devices that came out prior to 2012, as well as newer Macs with older versions of Boot Camp. When users attempt to update to the May 2019 Feature Update for Windows 10, version 1903, there is a driver incompatibility error.
On its support page for the issue, Microsoft reported:
Mac devices prior to 2012 or newer Mac devices with...
Apple Updates Boot Camp Drivers to Fix Major Issue Causing Blown Speakers on New MacBook Pros [Updated]
Thursday December 1, 2016 7:54 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Apple has released updated audio drivers to fix a major issue causing blown out speakers on new MacBook Pro models running Windows 10 with Boot Camp.
Earlier this month, a number of users began noticing crackling or distorted sound coming from the left, right, or both speakers on the new MacBook Pro, oftentimes shortly after installing and running Windows 10 with Boot Camp. These issues...
MacBook Pro's Touch Bar Will Display Function Keys When Running Windows With Boot Camp
Friday October 28, 2016 6:48 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
One of the biggest questions about the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro is how it will work with Windows through Boot Camp. That led MacRumors reader Abraham to send an email to Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi, who shared good news for dual-booters.Question from Abraham: Craig, am I correct in assuming that the Touch Bar becomes a row of visual function keys when using...
OWC's Entire SSD Lineup for Mac Now Supports Boot Camp
Thursday May 19, 2016 9:10 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
OWC announced today that it has released new software drivers that expand Boot Camp support to its entire SSD lineup.
The "Dual Boot Enablers" are available as free downloads on OWC's website for multiple previously unsupported SSDs, including the OWC Aura SSD for Mid-2013 and later MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro models, OWC Aura SSD for the 2013 or newer Mac Pro, and the Mercury...
USB Drives No Longer Required to Install Windows with Boot Camp in OS X El Capitan
Wednesday September 30, 2015 6:58 pm PDT by Husain Sumra
With OS X El Capitan available today to the public, some have begun discovering interesting tidbits and changes the new operating system has to offer. Twocanoes (via The Loop) has discovered that Boot Camp has gained the ability to install a Windows partition without a USB drive.
Image via Twocanoes
Boot Camp comes with a modified interface that places the ISO image selector and partitioning...
Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support
Wednesday August 12, 2015 9:36 pm PDT by Husain Sumra
Apple today released an update to Boot Camp with support for Microsoft Windows 10, according to a new support document. The update, Boot Camp 6, is still propagating and is not yet available for OS X. However, several MacRumors forum members have noted the update is available within Windows partitions in Boot Camp, Apple's tool to allow Intel Mac owners to dual boot OS X and Windows.
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