Windows10 on Apple via BootCamp
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Posted on 08/13/2015 2:03:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Apple has updated Boot Camp, its utility that allows Windows to run on a Mac, to support Windows 10, two weeks after Microsoft launched its latest OS.
Only the 64-bit version of Windows 10 will work with Boot Camp, Apple said Wednesday in a support document. Additionally, Windows 10 will only work on Macs running OS X Yosemite.
Apple reminded users that only Macs with Intel processors work with Boot Camp, a requirement since the multi-boot utility debuted in 2006.
An ISO file of the 64-bit version of Windows 10 is needed and Apple provides instructions on how to make one. A range of Mac models will work with Windows 10, including some systems that came out in 2012.
Boot Camp allows a person to run Windows on a Mac by partitioning the computer’s hard drive. People select what OS they wish to use when their Mac boots up.
Installing Boot Camp 6 will let Windows 10 use hardware features unique to a Mac, including the USB-C port, an Apple keyboard, trackpad or mouse and the Thunderbolt port. A Mac’s built-in SD or SDXC card slot and built-in or USB Apple SuperDrive are also supported.
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XP and 7 run just fine thank you...
Just run Windows 10 in VM emulation mode.
You can run Windows in an OSX application window on your OSX desktop and it’ll only run 5%-10% slower than on dedicated PC-AT hardware.
I added Chrome Browser to Win 10 instead of IE. I use it with Norton Safe Search with my new Windows 10 on my old HP 7 Pavilion to surf the net and to keep one of my HP printers working with Google Cloud Print and the other HP printer working with my old HP PC. Comcast is my internet provider.
This combo is amazingly fast with my old pc that took forever to log on to Win 7 and whatever IE.
This combo may be as fast as my new Acer Chromebook 15 in finding and logging on to my favorite sites. Norton Safe Search learns your favorite sites and enables a safe connection after a few key strokes.
Using this combo has eliminated the learning curve re Win 10’s interface. I’m basically using the same interface/tabs/bookmarks I have been using with Chrome and my PC, the past 2-3 years.
The benefit is the speed of this new combo and what appears to be a more reliable pc without buying a new pc or spending a lot of bucks for it or updating it.
The Norton Safe Search keeps me away from bad sites.
So far the only downside has been Win 10 updates wiping out my Kindle Cloud on my pc each night. My Kindle Cloud is still available on my Acer Chromebook and Android Tablet, where I do most of my Kindle reading and studying.
I was thrilled to eliminate the Windows partition from my Mac.
Virus protection, gone.
Annoying, continual updates, gone.
Malware protection, gone.
Poor quality graphics, gone.
Need for continually updated drivers, gone.
It did run better on the Mac then on my dell computer, but that isn’t saying much.
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Why would anybody with a sane mind want to infect their computer with anything produced by Microsoft. Really, are people that f-ing stupid?
This is interesting!
http://wn.ktvu.com/story/29784323/dell-to-sell-google-chromebook-tailored-for-corporate-users
Dell to sell Google Chromebook tailored for corporate users
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Posted: Aug 13, 2015 5:44 PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s latest Chromebook laptop will be specially designed for corporate customers in an effort to get more workers off machines powered by Microsoft’s dominant Windows software.
The Chromebook unveiled Thursday will be made by Dell and will go on sale Sept. 17. Prices will range from $400 to $900, a step up from a line of bare-bones Chromebooks that have been selling for as low as $150 since Google teamed up with Hisense and Haier to make those devices.
The cheap Chromebooks have helped make the laptops popular in classrooms, but they haven’t made many inroads in offices.
I have the same feelings using my Acer Chromebook 15, which I’m using now:
“Virus protection, gone.
Annoying, continual updates, gone.
Malware protection, gone.
Poor quality graphics, gone.
Need for continually updated drivers, gone.”
Before the end of the year, my old HP Pavilion will probably die.
I will probably replace it with a HP mini Win 10 desk top for my printers’s setups/control, and use the mini with a couple of Win programs. Then, I will buy a Chrome Desktop for 95% of what I do in my home office. HP mini to use my Chrome Desk set’s monitor, that will be the best of both worlds for me.
Sure, why not... although I'll bet some folks are getting mighty saturated with Windows 10...
Run Windows 10 on your... Mac?? Sure!! ... PING!
and thanks to Swordmaker for the heads-up!!
And by the way, I run Windows 7 in BootCamp on my Mac hardware, with awesome results... runs great! So I imagine if you want to run Windows 10 and have a Mac, that would likewise give good performance.
Simple! Because -IF- someone wants to run Windows 10, the very best hardware platform to run it on is often a Mac.
Moreover, running in BootCamp, Windows gets a set of Apple-written Windows drivers that not only take care of the Apple/Mac hardware peripherals, they also provide the ability to read the Mac HFS+ disk partition that runs the Mac part (read-only). And since the Mac can read the Windows NTFS partition, it can be extremely handy for file transfers, conversion, etc.
BootCamp is terrific.
“Why would anybody with a sane mind want to infect their computer with anything produced by Microsoft....”
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Probably, like me, they’ve not been able to COMPLETELY “cut the MS apron strings”.
The ONLY Microsoft thing we have on our home iMacs is “Office Mac 2011”. And I’m the only one in the family, I think, that uses it. The only thing I use is Excel. I’m sure that Apple’s “Numbers” equivalent can do all that Excel can do (and possibly more and/or better) but I am an Excel power user and know many of its hacks. Maybe one day (actually “days” would likely be needed) I’ll set aside some quite time and try to figure out how to get Numbers to do all the things I can do with Excel. Then I’ll be able to cut that sole remaining thread linking me to MS.
I’ve been doing that since the 29th... Win 10 runs just fine on my Macbook Pro. A couple glitches, but minor.
I’ll update the Mac side and see if it fixes those “glitches”.
I have office max on my mac mini. It works great I really don’t like apple’s numbers program especially since I use XL on both the PC and Mac and switch back-and-forth with the same file
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