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Apple’s support forum includes step by step instructions, but even following these can produce some unexpected results: one attempt left my Mac so badly broken that I was forced to wipe and reinstall. It is, without doubt, one of the most unintuitive pieces of software found in the OSX suite, and well hidden within the utilities folder.
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The Bootcamp utility included with the current OSX (10.12 Sierra) represents the current state of the art, containing a wizard to install Windows and all the drivers required by Windows for the Mac hardware. This utility, known as Bootcamp, was then included as part of OSX 10.5 and by the time it had reached v2, left its beta status behind. In 2006, Apple introduced an unsupported utility to allow a Mac disk to be partitioned to allow the hardware to boot into Windows rather than OSX. Indeed, for a good few years, the industry faced the irony that Apple made the best Windows laptops. Macs are (at time of writing) exclusively Intel-based PC’s, which makes them ideal targets for a Windows installation. Anyone who has received something shiny with an Apple logo on it over the festive season and realised that the majority of their day to day applications aren’t available may find this of interest. Since I have a Mac connected to a large screen (my Dell XPS spends much of its time in my bag, sleeping soundly in the way that the Surface Pro doesn’t) I was keen to check out my options for running Windows on a Mac. And to stretch the metaphor just a bit further, having to hose down your PC to remove the thing is never fun. It seems like great fun, but you can never be sure if this will be the occasion you find a stinky landmine secreted amongst the golds, yellows and, er, browns. Trying out Windows 10 Insider builds from the fast ring is always a little like leaping into a huge pile of autumnal leaves.