They should bring back Bootcamp

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They should bring back Bootcamp

Mac and Windows are the best. I picked Mac because I'm an artist and my MacBook will last 10 years. The problem is that there's a lot of cool games on Windows. So I tried to download Bootcamp sadly my Mac doesn't support Bootcamp. My MacBook is the MacBook Pro M3. I heard that BootCamp only works on the old Macs but not the new ones. I tried to look it up on YouTube but they use their old MacBooks. But I heard they quit working on BootCamp. But there's other ways to use Windows on Mac. Parallels Desktop is a good program app or website but it's expensive. UTM is alright but you can't play any games. BootCamp is the best program for using Windows on Mac. But Earlier I was thinking do I have to buy a USB and plug it into my Macbook and use BootCamp? But anyways Thank You. They should bring bootcamp back to life again.

MacBook Pro 14″

Posted on Mar 28, 2024 4:25 PM

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Answer 1

FoxFifth

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Mar 28, 2024 4:40 PM in response to APOBJECTS

Windows was designed to run on Intel processors. Buying a USB device and plugging it into your M3 Mac won't work. Running Windows natively via BootCamp is not something that Apple can solve on their own.

See the following from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer.[9] Apple Silicon is not supported due to being ARM-based. Although Windows 11 supports ARM64, the ARM64 version is only licensed to OEMs, and there are no M1/M2 drivers, so it cannot run on Apple Silicon Macs natively.[6]

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Rudegar

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Mar 29, 2024 4:22 AM in response to APOBJECTS

also added to what was said

then 99% of the "cool games on windows" would be intel x86 CPU based

so if they would run on windows 11 Arm CPU then it would require the ms version of rosetta 2

which would without doubt, impair the performance of the computer game.

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