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Most people buy a Mac to work in the environment of OS X, but very often in the neighborhood of the apple OS on the boot drive and is Windows. The fact there are a lot of reasons: the need for specificity, the desire to use high quality "hardware" working in Windows and others. The new MacBook is really New ProductRather than upgrade an existing, so running it on Windows is doubly interesting. ArsTechnica editors conducted an interesting experiment to start and run Windows on the new MacBook, read about the results below.
Installing and some nuances
The process of creating and uploading Boot Camp Windows drivers, in fact, has not changed. You need to download the image onto your Windows 8.1 the MacBook, run "Assistant Boot Camp» in the folder "Utilities" connect the USB-Stick 8GB, and specify the amount of disk space you want to allocate under Windows.
The first challenge - a flash drive. Drives a new standard USB-C will not find in the afternoon with fire. At a minimum, you'll need a $ 19 adapter USB Type C - USB type A, or from Apple
Third-party. Before you begin, you need to fully charge the MacBook. When using USB 3.0 flash drives everything went smoothly after the disk creation MacBook rebooted and started Installation Windows, then install the software and the Boot Camp drivers.If after you restart the installation does not start, you need to hold down the Option key and select the installation disc from the list (it should appear as the EFI Boot).
display Resolution
When you first load the Windows desktop, after everything is installed, fonts, and interface elements may seem too small. Automatic detection and adjustment of the screen resolution, works on a standard PC, on your MacBook does not work, so you have to select it manually. To do this, simply right-click on the desktop, select "Screen Resolution", then "Make text and objects more or less" and specify the desired scaling percentage. Best would be 150%, even though someone may have satisfied and 125%.
In this regard, Windows has an advantage over OS X - regardless of zoom settings is displayed in the desktop standard MacBook display resolution 2304 × 1440, so there will be problems with the performance of the GPU due to the fact that you are doing smaller interface elements or larger. The downside - is to support high-resolution Windows-based applications, it still leaves much to be desired. Microsoft applications and the most popular third-party applications has the support of Retina, but at the same Adobe products is still listed as an experimental feature.
Less popular and, especially, the old applications will look tiny, or, conversely, blurred. In some applications, the main part of the window looks good, but the individual buttons or sliders are not displayed correctly. In OS X, only a few applications do not support Retina-resolution, but on Windows it is, unfortunately, common.
Other oddities Software
Apple support level of its software for Windows has never impressed and Boot Camp, as before, only covers the basic functionality. Boot Camp Control Panel allows you to select the boot partition, configure the behavior of the function keys and trackpad gestures (right click and tap to click). Of course, there are drivers for all internal devices, but it is, in fact, everything that you get.
In Control Panel, Boot Camp does not require special tools for configuring Force Touch trackpad. Apparently used the average pressing force settings and change them there is no way (as this option of OS X storage and transport). Native trackpad gestures are not supported by Windows 8.1, which most likely means there is no support for them and also in Windows 10.
Trackpad Apple, known for its standard accuracy on OS X, are quite mediocre in the Windows environment. Average cursor works fine, but on the two-finger scroll gesture trackpad usually reacts too quickly and sharply. Drag object obtained from the second and third times. This should be familiar to you if you use Boot Camp on a MacBook before. Trackpad with Force Touch does not solve, and, fortunately, does not add any new problems.
Another headache - a broken Bluetooth. The adapter is not determined in the "Device Manager" or the settings screen. The devices that you have connected and successfully used on OS X, after rebooting into Windows will simply stop working. This is probably the driver problem, and it is easy to solve, but at the moment the situation is such.
And finally, be very careful with the installation of new drivers provided by the device manufacturers, not by Apple. When you install Boot Camp deliver relatively fresh driver for integrated graphics, although the Windows Update and on the Intel site is newer. After installing this driver, we are faced with the problem of artifacts, which was solved only reboot MacBook or back to a previous version of the driver.
Performance and autonomy
In spite of the same hardware, the behavior of Windows and OS X differs considerably, which affects the performance and battery life. As practice shows, the graphics performance above on Windows, Apple explains that slowness to introduce new versions of OpenGL and drivers. Then, as an autonomous operating time higher in OS X, Windows does not show such good results because of difficulties in the integration of software and hardware. The tests confirm both observations.
CPU performance is almost the same in both operating systems, they are almost flush.
But the graphics performance on Windows is definitely higher, not some of the tests is not very noticeable, in others the difference is palpable.
The big plus is that the new Macbook supports Windows 8.1 display on the external display with the same settings as in OS X. While Dell P2415Q could not get a signal to output 4K-60 Hz through SST even disable the internal display.
In surfing on the Wi-Fi MacBook loses about 1.5 hours of battery life when compared with OS X. The tests were conducted with the same set of pages that are cyclically updated in the standard system browser (Safari, and Internet Explorer) before the battery runs out.
Buying a new Macbook to run Windows, not the best idea - most hardware advantages and disadvantages are the same in both operating systems. There are some problems (broken Bluetooth and scarce Trackpad settings), the correction of which would like to see in the next version of the drivers. However, in general, more or less normally, even in its current form.
On the other hand, OEM-PC manufacturers can offer products of good qualityIf you do not need OS X - asus UX305It is having a similar form factor and a more affordable price, or Dell XPS 13If performance is important to you and you do not mind the fan. MacBook - profitable option if you need a computer to work on OS X and Windows. If you are only interested in Windows, you better look in the direction of devices from other manufacturers.
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