Boot Camp (software)

Installation Installing Windows 10 on a Mac requires an ISO image of Windows 10 provided by Microsoft. Boot Camp combines Windows 10 with install scripts to load hardware drivers for the targeted Mac computer. Boot Camp supports Windows 10 on Macs dated mid-2012 or newer. Apple silicon is not supported due to being ARM-based; although Windows 11 is able to run on ARM64, Microsoft only licenses Windows releases for ARM64 to original equipment manufacturers, and there are no drivers for the Apple silicon SoCs, so Windows cannot run on Apple silicon Macs natively. On newer Macs, Boot Camp keeps the hard disk as a GPT so that Windows is installed and booted in UEFI mode. ==Requirements==

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Apple's Boot Camp system requirements lists the following requirements for Mac OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion: • 8 GB USB storage device, or external drive formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) for installation of Windows drivers for Mac hardware • 20 GB free hard disk space for a first-time installation or 40 GB for an upgrade from a previous version of Windows • A full version of one of the following operating systems: • Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate (64-bit editions only) • Windows 8 and Windows 8 Professional (64-bit editions only) • Windows 10 Home, Pro, Pro for Workstation, Education or Enterprise (64-bit editions only) Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Apple lists the following requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: • Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions) • Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions) Supported Mac computers with Windows 8 The earliest Macs that support Windows 8 are the mid-2011 MacBook Air, 13" mid-2011 or 15" and 17" mid-2010 MacBook Pro, except the mid-2010 13" computers, mid-2011 Mac Mini, 21" mid-2011 or 27" mid-2010 iMac, except the 21.5" mid-2010, and early 2009 Mac Pro. ==Limitations==

• Boot Camp will only help a user partition their disk if the user has only a primary HFS+ or APFS partition, an EFI system partition, and a macOS Recovery partition. • Boot Camp does not help users install Linux. Most methods for dual booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd. • Macs transitioned to Thunderbolt 3 in 2016 and Boot Camp does not support running Windows with a Thunderbolt 3-powered External GPU (eGPU) unit under macOS High Sierra, macOS Mojave or macOS Catalina. ==Boot Camp version history==

==Boot Camp support software (for Windows) version history==