Boot camp

Salacious B Crum · August 26, 2018

Looking for some input on putting windows 10 on my mid 2015 MacBook would like to hear pro's and con's and no not that you're a windows or mac fan but either you are familiar with an issue or a positive experience, why do I want to do this? all my other rigs a Ryzen based HEDT systems (see signature below) and it seems like a natural progression since I have the ability to do so, so a couple of questions for starters:

1. will the os experience be just like a windows pc

2. is there any issues with drivers and such

3. will it hurt my mac performance as it is now

4. reason why I shouldn't do it other than why you don't like the idea, more that you are aware of a fundamental flaw with it's implementation or other factor

Electronics Wizardy · August 26, 2018

1. Yea

2. No, drivers work fine.

3. It will preform just like any other windows system with the same spec(approx)

3. Nope, it will work fine. Just give it a go.

wasab · August 27, 2018

1) yeah except hardwarely you won't have Ethernet or USB ports if you are using modern day MacBooks because Apple just likes to inconvenient you.

2) driver works okay but don't expect the same level of fine tuning done by apple enginners who had much more control over both the hardwares and softwares. It is like Linux drivers. Driver developers focus more on "our driver works! we got it to work! Job done let's move on" Rather than "we added power saving features to the driver! Now it consumes less battery. Now let's move on to optimizing performance"

3) your wifi cards and audio might be subpar depending how good the windows drivers are. By this I meant your wireless signal might have lower range and sound might not sound as crisp. Also your laptop battery life takes a hit when on Windows because like I said, drivers are not well optimized and power efficient as those design by apple.

4) I find the idea of dual booting off a partition on your drive as inherently evil. Two system mix meshing together is unholy. Any logical reason why? None. It is my aesthetic that's all. This is why I nuked Windows completely when I first installed Linux.

I will also offer you my opinion that both Windows and MacOS suck. Do with it as you will.