Why? You paid a premium to get a privilege
to run Mac OS, yet you want to devalue your
Macbook by installing Windows? Every time
I hear someone saying this, my brain just
stops. Mac AND Windows - both are good for
certain things, so why not pack both of them
into one really well made laptop? There is
literally no reason for not doing this. You
are not gonna lose anything really and on
top of that, you will be able to play proper
games on it. So in this video we gonna install
Windows on this 16 inch Macbook Pro, and then
I'll show you what you need to do right after
to make sure you get the most from your new
hybrid Mac slash Windows computer. Let's get
to it.
What's going on everybody, I'm back with another
video about Macbooks because I feel we're
at a point where the hardware inside of these
latest models is good enough to serve as two
computers in one. You get a powerful i9 Mac
and a powerful i9 Windows both running from
this high quality chassis. Now of course,
I usually talk to creators on this channel
so our videos are aimed at people who create
content, be it in After Effects, Premiere
or video production in general, but in this
case I think making a video about Windows
on Mac would benefit literally everyone who's
creates anything. If you're worried you need
the latest 16" Macbook to do this well don't
be - the same thing will work perfectly fine
on the previous generations as well, we just
happen to have this one. Of course, if you
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I've mentioned this before in one of my previous
videos – now if you take anything from this
video, let it be this; go for one terabyte
SSD - basically, if you plan on installing
Windows on your Macbook, make sure you have
enough space for it. I'd highly recommend
having at least 150-200gig dedicated to Windows,
especially if you are using this as your day
to day computer where you have all types of
apps; which means a lot of data. If you're
running on 256gig model, you can still do
this but make sure you stick to the end of
this video as I want show you how to use a
special tool to enable read and write from
both Windows and Mac partitions. This is helpful
for keeping the data, let's say Dropbox, on
one partition but still being able to see
it from both operating systems.
So what do we need? Downloading Windows is
a pretty straightforward process, you don't
need to look for it for too long - it's available
on the official Microsoft website - choose
Windows 10, then your language and finally
click on the 64 bit version to begin downloading.
It's around 5 gigabytes so while we're waiting
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Windows downloaded so let's install it by
using a tool that comes with your Mac called
Boot Camp Assistant. I've seen some people
on Reddit asking if this is legal - of course,
it is. Installing Mac OS on a Windows machine,
aka Hackintosh, is more of a grey-ish area.
So let's open Boot Camp Assistant, click Continue,
select your Windows ISO image here and then
drag this thing to create a partition on your
drive. Now, be careful here because once the
partition is created, it cannot be adjusted.
It's up to you how much space you're willing
to allocate to Windows but keep in mind that
anything below 100gigs might not be enough
for normal day to day work. Also, be aware
that Windows won't be able to write to Mac
partition and vice-versa out of the box. We
will install a tool called Mac ToolBox from
Paragon but keep in mind it costs around $40
but it will enable read and write between
partitions so it's quite useful, especially
when you're running out of space.
You're probably familiar with Windows installation
already - pretty much the same process here
set your preferred language and if you have
a product key you can add it here. If you
don't, you can still continue by clicking
on I don't have a product key - you can always
add it later. Hit next, select the version
you want to install, let's say Windows 10
Pro, next, next and then just wait for the
installation to finish. When that's done,
select your region, keyboard layout, wifi
and if you want to sign in with your Microsoft
account. You don't have to, just click on
this Offline account button and then confirm
you are happy with Limited experience. I'll
leave this on you, if you are within Microsoft
ecosystem already, it might be a good idea
to login with the same account to get access
to your OneDrive et cetera - otherwise, it's
perfectly fine to choose to use an Offline
account. There is a bunch of other things
Windows will ask, you can enable or disable
them, again, up to you.
So, we are officially running Windows on a
Macbook, there are just a few things that
we need to setup to give you the best performance.
First thing is the monitor brightness. By
default, Windows enabled Automatic dimming
of your screen based on your surroundings
but I find this to be too dark. So let's head
over to Display settings and uncheck this.
If you plan on using an external monitor with
your laptop lid closed, you need to disable
sleep mode, otherwise your Macbook will go
to sleep as soon as you close the lid. You
can do disable this in Power Options by going
inside Additional Power Settings and clicking
on Choose what closing the lid does. I personally
recommend to keep this on while your Macbook
is running from battery and disable it while
it's plugged it. That's the default behaviour
of Mac OS anyway. You don't want to end up
in a situation where you pack your laptop
to your backpack while it's still running
because it will most certainly overheat.
Command key on your keyboard acts as Windows
key, which is a problem because things like
copy-paste by using Cmd + C and Cmd + V are
not going to work. You have to press Control
+ C and Control + V. Not a big issue but it
becomes quite annoying when you need to adapt
to these different keyboard layouts. So let's
fix this by installing a tool called SharpKeys
- I'll put the link in the description section
below. Open SharpKeys and click on Add, down
here. You have a list of things keys on left
and right and so whatever you select on the
left will be mapped to the key selected on
the right side. To make our lifes easier,
click on Type Key, hit that left command button,
click ok and do the same thing on the right
side but this time select your left control
key. Hit okay and you have your first key
bining ready but we also have to do it the
other way, so mapping our left control key
to our left command key, otherwise you won't
have windows key which is actually quite useful
to have. So let's do the reverse thing here
and when you're done, hit write to registry
and either log out or restart your computer.
You might be surprised that it automatically
boots into Windows instead of Mac and it doesn't
show you bootable partitions. To change your
preferred operating system, open Boot Camp
Assistant and select either of these. The
next time you restart your computer it will
boot into that system. In any case, you can
hold down Alt while booting up your machine
and you will be able to override this setting.
One thing that annoys me on Windows laptops
is the trackpad. Fortunately Macbooks have
really great trackpads but unfortunately you
won't be able to use its full potential on
Windows. Unless... you install new drivers
for it. Thanks to some amazing open-source
people we can install better Windows Precision
drivers on almost all Macbooks, which is awesome!
Head over to this link and before you do anything
else, check if your computer is supported
and buy this guy a coffee. Then click on releases
and download the latest ARM or AMD version.
It's important to unzip the archive first,
then go inside and right click on this .inf
file and choose Install. Confirm and now you
should be able to go to settings and configure
your Touchpad for gestures and other cool
stuff.
Do you remember how we split this drive into
two partitions at the beginning of this video?
I warned you, Windows won't be able to see
your Mac partition and vice-versa. Why is
that? Windows uses NTFS while Mac runs on
APFS or HFS+. Thankfully there is a tool from
Paragon called Mac Toolbox which is a collection
of several apps that you install on both systems
and enable things like read and write between
these partitions or changing your disk space
allocation between partitions after you installed
Windows - which is kinda cool. Let's head
over their website and you will most likely
see some sort of discount so you should be
able to get the entire Mac ToolBox for around
$40. So when you get it, head over to your
Paragon account and you should be able to
see all of these tools listed under My Products.
Because my Macbook drive has APFS file system
we gonna need APFS for Windows. A little caveat
here - if your APFS drive has encryption enabled,
you won't be able to access that Mac partition
even after you install APFS for Windows. The
solution to that is disabling encryption which
in my opinion is not the best thing to do.
So instead of installing APFS for Windows,
let's jump to Mac OS and install NTFS for
Mac which will allow us to access Windows
drive from Mac OS. It would be better to have
the ability to do the same from Windows but
you would have to disable that encryption
on APFS first. So let's switch to Mac OS,
download and install NTFS for Mac and you
should be able to read and write to that partition
without any issues. This will save you quite
some time, especially when your primary OS
is Mac because you can easily transfer stuff
you need to that Bootcamp partition, switch
to Windows and use it there.
I know for sure there is a large chunk of
you out there who installed Windows on Mac
so you can play games on it isn't that right?
Are you one of them? Well, I certainly am
so I made another tutorial for setting up
Bootcamp specifically for playing the latest
games on it. There should be a link to that
video somewhere over here. In that video I
go over installing a specific GPU drivers
that can really help to make the most out
of your hardware, especially on machines like
this 16inch i9 Macbook. So if you are interested
in playing games on your freshly installed
Windows, definitely watch that video too.
And that's pretty much it, you now have a
fully functional Windows running on your Macbook.
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