Jan 21, 2015 - 2015 is going to be a big year for Microsoft with the forthcoming release of Windows 10 — you can read all about Microsoft's big January event. It sounds like your coworker is installing Windows with the Bootcamp feature on their Mac. The way that Apple and Microsoft look at the installation, is just like any other, they see it just an installation of the Operating System. This means that you will need the key to activate the copy of Windows 10 Pro. I hope this helps.
Windows 8 was bad enough that it forced me — a lifelong Windows user up until that point — to switch my entire family over to Macs. But after seeing how (the Start menu is finally back and Internet Explorer is nearly gone), I’m now interested in giving it a try once again. Like most people using MacBooks, I have no interest in getting rid of my laptop, but thankfully I don’t have to buy any new hardware to use Windows 10. Thanks to Apple creating some helpful tools and some solid third-party options, it’s rather easy to get Windows 10 up and running right alongside OS X. Virtual Machine or Boot Camp? There are two easy ways to install Windows on a Mac.
You can use a virtualization program, which runs Windows 10 like an app right on top of OS X, or you can use Apple’s built-in Boot Camp program to partition your hard drive to dual-boot Windows 10 right next to OS X. Virtual machines like Parallels and VMware cost upwards of $70 on top of what you already have to pay for Windows 10, and while you can run OS X and Windows simultaneously, the drain on your processing power can force both operating systems to run less than optimally.
Boot Camp is the easiest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac Boot Camp doesn’t allow you to easily transfer content between OS X and Windows partitions like virtual machines do, and you can’t run the two operating systems simultaneously. But it does give Windows full access to the processing power of your Mac. It’s also completely free (apart from the Windows 10 license), and a shared Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive folder can make data transfers a bit easier. Right now, the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to get Windows 10 on your Mac is Boot Camp, and that’s what we’re using for this tutorial. The first thing you should do is to make sure your Mac can actually run Windows 10. Your Mac needs at least 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM would be better) and at least 30GB of free hard drive space to properly run Boot Camp.
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You’ll also need at least a 16GB flash drive so Boot Camp can create a bootable drive to install Windows 10. Read Next: Our. Installing Windows 10 with Boot Camp Before we go any further, you should back up your Mac.
While Boot Camp is very stable, anything can go wrong when you partition your hard drive, and you want to be protected. Once you download your copy of Windows 10 — the full version, not the upgrade — we can begin the installation process. (You can also buy Windows 10 on a USB flash drive.) Open up Boot Camp Assistant, which can be found in the Utilities folder in your Applications list. Boot Camp will prompt you to back up your Mac, which you should have already done.
The next page will ask you to select the tasks you want Boot Camp to complete. Check all the boxes, make sure your flash drive is plugged in, and click continue. Select the Windows 10 ISO location (Boot Camp automatically found it in my Downloads folder), and choose the USB drive as the destination, and click Continue. Boot Camp will create a boot drive with all of the necessary drivers. Now is the time to go outside and clean out the garage, start building a new vision board, or get a head start on your taxes — this is going to take a while. It took a bit over an hour for Boot Camp to finish the boot drive in our test.
(Since Windows 10 is fresh out the box, Boot Camp doesn’t officially support it yet, which could mean some drivers are missing. After a few initial issues including an unresponsive Start menu that was fixed by a restart, The Verge’s MacBook Air running Windows 10 ran flawlessly, with no noticeable driver errors. But still, install at your own risk until Apple issues an update for Boot Camp.) If you want to play games, make sure your partition is large enough After Boot Camp creates your USB boot drive, it will prompt you to choose how much of your hard drive you want to partition for Windows. This is a critical decision: after you choose, you cannot shrink or expand the partition without completely reinstalling Windows. If you just want access to Windows 10 and only plan on using a couple apps, 30GB will suffice (a minimum of 20GB is necessary).
But if you’re looking to play PC games or use Windows 10 as your main OS, you’re going to want to ramp up the available space in the partition. Once you make your decision, click Install. During this part of the installation, your Mac will restart a few times, ultimately landing you at a screen that will ask you which partition you want to install Windows 10 on.
Select the partition labeled 'Boot Camp,' format it for NFTS, and continue with the installation. You’ll go through the setup wizard where Windows will ask you for the product key and you’ll be on your way. The Windows 10 experience on Mac To switch back and forth between OS X and Windows 10, you’ll need to restart your Mac. Once it begins to reboot, hold down the Option key until you see the boot manager. Click on the partition with the corresponding operating system you want to use. Removing Windows 10 is as simple as installing it If Windows 10 is giving you issues or you just want to get rid of it, removing Windows from your Mac and restoring it to the original, single partition state is a simple process: open Boot Camp, and check the 'Remove Windows 7 or later' box, then click Continue.
To remove the entire Windows partition, click Restore on the next screen. Boot Camp will ask for your password and then restore your Mac to its original state. Windows 10 runs well on the Mac — on our early-2014 MacBook Air, the OS hasn’t shown any noticeable sluggishness or major issues that you wouldn’t find on a PC. The biggest difference between using Windows 10 on a Mac and a PC is the keyboard. You can’t remap keys easily, which means if you were used to using Cmd+c for copy on OS X, you’ll have to remember that it won’t work on Windows (it’s Cntrl+c). It’s definitely an inconvenience, but not one big enough to say you shouldn’t give Windows 10 on Mac a try.
The main issue you’ll have is battery life, as we barely got 3 hours of usage on a full charge. Will it change when Apple updates Boot Camp for Windows 10? Possibly, but if you’re looking for anything close to the 10 hours of battery life you normally get from a MacBook Air, you should probably just pick up.
Wine is an open source program for running Windows software on non-Windows operating systems. While it’s most often used on Linux, Wine can run Windows software directly on a Mac, too–without requiring a Windows license or needing Windows running in the background. This isn’t necessarily the best option if you want to. Wine isn’t perfect, and not every application will run ideally.
Some applications will crash or not run at all. And are more rock-solid options, but they do add more overhead and require a Windows installation.
For apps that do work, however, Wine can be extremely useful. How to Download Wine on a Mac. There are several ways to get Wine on a Mac. The official project website at WineHQ now provides of Wine for Mac OS X.
However, those aren’t necessarily the best option. These Wine binaries allow you to run Windows software, but don’t provide any helpful graphical tools for installing and setting up common applications, so they’re best for advanced users already familiar with Wine. Instead, you should probably consider one of the third-party projects that take the Wine source code and build a more convenient interface on top of it, one that helps you quickly install and configure common applications. They often perform tweaks that you’d have to perform by hand if you were using the barebones Wine software. They include their own Wine software, too, so you only have to download one thing.
Third-party tools include,. There’s also the commercial, which is the only application here you have to pay for. We’ll be using WineBottler for this tutorial, as it seems like the most popular option among Mac users. It can create Mac.app bundles for Windows programs. The other third-party applications will work similarly. How to Run Windows Software on a Mac With WineBottler To get started, download.
Be sure to download a version that works on your release of Mac OS X. When this article was written, that meant OS X El Capitan and Yosemite users needed to download version 1.8. Open the downloaded DMG file. Drag and drop both Wine and WineBottler applications to your Applications folder to install them, just like you would any other Mac application. You can then launch WineBottler from your Applications folder.
WineBottler lists a number of different programs you can easily install. For example, you could install various versions of Internet Explorer if you needed to test websites with them on your Mac. The Windows version of Steam is available, and which could allow you to run some Windows-only games on your Mac. Choose any of these options and WineBottler will automatically download, install, and configure these applications for you.
The installed application will appear under “On My Mac” in the WineBottler window. You can uninstall them from here, if you like. Click an application and it will launch in a window, receiving its own icon on your dock. To run another application that doesn’t appear in the WineBottler list, you can simply download it, then right-click or Ctrl-click its.exe file to select Open With Wine. WineBottler allows you to quickly execute the.exe directly, if you like. You can also choose to install the application in a Mac.app file created by WineBottler.
If you choose to convert it to an OS X application bundle, you will be taken to the Advanced screen in WineBottler. Provide the.exe file used to install the application and you can install it as an.app using the options here. Depending on the application, you may need various third-party libraries from the Winetricks list, DLL override options, or runtime arguments here to make it work. However, that often isn’t necessary–just executing.exe files directly with Wine should generally work.
If you can’t get an application working, you should perform a web search for its name and “wine” or “winebottler” for tips on what advanced functions you might need. Bear in mind that WineBottler is best if you have a single program or handful of programs that work well. If you plan on testing out a lot of software or you use software that Wine doesn’t support well, you’ll have a much better time just running it in a virtual machine.
These offer more or less guaranteed compatibility with Windows software on a Mac. Copyright: Howtogeek.com Tags:,.