

If the assistant says that the Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive, or that the USB flash drive can't be used, make sure that your USB flash drive has a storage capacity of at least 16GB and is formatted correctly.If you can't download or save the Windows support software: If your Mac has an AMD video card and is having graphics issues in Windows, you might need to update your AMD graphics drivers instead. Your Mac starts up to a black or blue screen after you install Windows.You get a message that your PC has a driver or service that isn't ready for this version of Windows.You get an alert that Apple Software Update has stopped working.You have issues with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in Windows.You can't adjust the brightness of your built-in display in Windows.One or more screen resolutions are unavailable for your display in Windows.The built-in microphone or camera of your Mac isn't recognized in Windows.You don't hear audio from the built-in speakers of your Mac in Windows.Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows.įorce Touch isn't designed to work in Windows.When you install Microsoft Windows on your Mac, Boot Camp Assistant automatically opens the Boot Camp installer, which installs the latest Windows support software (drivers). If that doesn't happen, or you experience any of the following issues while using Windows on your Mac, follow the steps in this article. The biggest challenge will be how well Apple and Microsoft get along in terms of licensing, but since Microsoft's already developing Office for the Arm Macs, we can be reasonably sure the company won't arbitrarily stand in the way of getting x86 Windows running in emulation on Apple Silicon.Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor. Those processors should be strong enough to emulate x86 CPUs and run Wintel without too much difficulty. It's even a fair assumption that after a few years, the Apple Silicon-based Macs will have ludicrously powerful processors. So, it's a fair assumption that the Apple Silicon-based Macs will have reasonably powerful processors. We can assume that Apple will drive up its processor power over the years because it has such a good track record of beefing up its own processors. The development kit version released now is using a Mac mini enclosure with what's essentially an iPad inside.

For our purposes, when we're talking about Windows on Arm Macs, we're talking about traditional x86 Windows, not the Windows for Arm implementation that's only available to OEMs.Īs our next caveat, we need to admit we have no idea how powerful the Apple Silicon-based Macs will be. Windows, of course, is x86-based, except for the random Arm-based machine like the Surface X, which runs x86 instructions in emulation.
