I use Windows 10 on my iMac more than I do macOS. I like the opportunity to use one of the two most successful operating systems. I like the right not to deny myself any applications and games. If iron allows, why not?
Unfortunately, Apple has other plans. Bootcamp days are numbered, and the impossible happened for this trend to reverse. Even Microsoft got tired of waiting and simply announced virtualization as the new standard for running Windows on a Mac.
Everything suggests that in two or three years, as the last Mac on Intel processors loses support for their version of macOS, we will lose both the application of the same name and everything related to Bootcamp in the Apple ecosystem.
And this sad.
How is Bootcamp different from some Parallels?
It’s an iMac, and thanks to Bootcamp, it’s a complete PC.
Bootcamp is better than virtualization in that you run the operating system as is, directly on your Mac’s hardware. This is not an emulation, as in parallelsexactly full Windows.
No none restrictions on applications, games and OS customization options – this is the same “Windows” as on any PC.
In Bootcamp you 100% Mac iron power, and not what remains after emulating Windows and needing to run on the background of macOS. Games, software, the system as a whole work incomparably faster than they do at the same driving speed.
Why is bootcamp dying?
Bootcamp users are no longer able to install some Windows 10 updates.
Boot camp is no longer of interest to Apple. The company left Intel for its ARM processors. It is logical to leave native compatibility with Windows overboard: since they decided to burn bridges, then in a big way. As part of a new course to spread the deviation of poppies from the PC, the Cupertinos get rid of the ballast platform that occurs in less successful cases.
In recent years, before the announcement of Apple Silicon processors, it became clear that the company had completely lost interest in Bootcamp. Newer MacBooks and iMacs still work with Windows 10, but with a load of caveats that are slowly growing. For example, there were problems with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth drivers – some “firmware” of 2017-2019 have not survived to this day.
Bugs that appear with the release of major updates to Windows 10 began to be fixed for six months or eliminated. By the way, now all Mac owners with Bootcamp visit the installation of an error in one of the Windows 10 security updates – and nothing can be done about it. She has been visiting for three months now.
AMD drivers for Mac were last updated in Summer 2022.
Drivers for Radeon video cards built into some Mac models have practically ceased to be popular. Out of this story grew the AMD alternative driver project for Apple, bootcampdrivers.com. I use efficiency myself. They work more or less normally, but sooner or later this shop will be closed.
Standard AMD driver installers do not recognize Mac hardware. You can only use high-ranking versions of the software available in a special section of the AMD website.
Third-party drivers are still more or less saving the situation, but only delaying the inevitable finale.
Its contents are replenished once a year, sometimes two years – or even thrown into some version of the driver, which may cause some fresh games to not start or specialized software to not work. For example, the latest driver for Apple’s penultimate Intel Mac, iMac 2020, is 2 full versions behind the real one (21 against 23).
Finally, bootcamp in general does not support Windows 11 installation. The Apple installer does not want to recognize the ISO file of this version of the system. It is expected that support for Win11 at the official driver level is virtually non-existent.
What can revive Bootcamp on Mac?
The bright future of the Mac, according to Apple, has no place for Windows.
Nothing but one – essential, dangerous critical falling Mac sales.
This is a business, no wonder. The idea of Bootcamp arose when Apple could sacrifice the identity of the Mac for the sake ofABOUTmore sales. “Switchers” had to be attracted in any way, albeit by completely erasing the macOS partition, if only they bought the laptop itself or a monoblock with an “apple”.
Now this strategy is absolutely uninteresting: services and a closed ecosystem are increasingly driving revenue. The idea that someone buys a brand new Mac and wipes Ventura with it for Windows 11, in a modern system, Apple looks like an iPhone 14 Pro Max with Android 13 on board. This is impossible.
Mac sales, even now, when the consumer electronics market is in a slump, are not falling much, staying afloat relative to the coverage statistics of the PC world. The prospects for a sudden “rollback” of Apple’s strategy are not in sight.
So bootcamp now living out the last years, and will soon become the property of the so-called “residual” Macs – with all the ensuing consequences. Let’s wave to him. Someone like me will be bored, but in the general mass, the minority, and our opinion of the company looks uninteresting.
Source: Iphones RU
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