6.1.0 / August 10, 2016; 2 years ago ( 2016-08-10) for Website Boot Camp Assistant is a included with 's that assists users in installing on computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive (including resizing of an existing partition, if necessary) of their and installation of Windows for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a for selecting the boot operating system. Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for, the utility was first introduced with and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported,. Boot Camp 4.0 for up to version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7.
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However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for in version 10.8.3, only versions of and are officially supported. Boot Camp 6.0 added support for. Boot Camp 6.1, available on and later, will only accept new installations of Windows 7 and later; this requirement was upgraded to requiring Windows 10 for. Contents. Overview Installation Setting up on a Mac requires a USB flash drive and the of Windows 10 provided by Microsoft. Boot Camp reformats the flash drive as a Mac bootable install disk, and combines Windows 10 with install scripts to load hardware drivers for the targeted Mac computer. Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer.
Startup Disk By default, Mac will always boot from the last-used startup disk. Holding down the (⌥) at startup brings up the, allowing the user to choose which operating system to start up. When using a non-Apple keyboard, the usually performs the same action. The boot manager can also be launched by holding down the “menu” button on the at startup. On older Macs, its functionality relies on emulation through and a partition table information synchronization mechanism between and combined. On newer Macs, Boot Camp keeps the hard disk as a so that Windows is installed and booted in mode. ^ Broersma, Matthew (April 13, 2006).
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Despite the Mac's recent gains in market share, Windows is still the dominant operating system, especially in businesses. That means there may be times when you need to run the Microsoft OS: perhaps there’s an application your company uses that’s only available for Windows, or you’re a web developer and you need to test your sites in a true native Windows web browser. Or maybe you want to play computer games that aren’t available for OS X. Whatever your reason for running Windows, there are a number of ways your Mac can do it for you. If you need to run just one or two specific Windows apps, you may be able to do so using ( ), which can run such applications without requiring you to actually install Windows. (CrossOver's vendor, CodeWeavers, maintains a.) If you need a more flexible, full-fledged Windows installation, you still have several other options. You could use Apple’s own, which lets you install Windows on a separate partition of your hard drive.
Or you could install one of three third-party virtualization programs: ( ), ( ), or ( ), each of which lets you run Windows (or another operating system) as if it were just another OS X application. Of those four options, Boot Camp offers the best performance; your Mac is wholly given over to running Windows. But you have to reboot your system to use Boot Camp, so you can’t use it at the same time as OS X; it's Mac or Windows, but not both. And while VirtualBox is free, setting it up is complicated—downright geeky, at times—and it lacks some bells and whistles you might want. Which leaves Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion as your best alternatives. So, of those two, how do you decide which one is right for you?
In the past, I tried to answer that question by, to see how they did on specific tasks. This time, however, that task-based approach didn’t work, largely because (with a couple exceptions that are noted below) the latest versions of Fusion and Parallels Desktop are nearly indistinguishable in performance. So instead of picking one program over the other based on how well it performs a given task, the choice now hinges on some more subjective factors.
So this time around, I’ll look at those and try to explain how the two programs differ on each. Note that, for the most part, I've focused primarily on using these programs to run Windows on your Mac. You can, of course, use them to run other operating systems—including OS X Lion itself—but that’s not the focus here. General Performance As noted, both Parallels Desktop and Fusion perform well when it comes to running Windows 7 on a Mac. Macworld Labs ran both programs through PCWorld’s WorldBench 6 benchmark suite, and the results were close: overall, VMware Fusion beat out Parallels Desktop by a very slight margin (113 to 118, meaning Fusion was 18 percent faster than a theoretical baseline system, Parallels Desktop 13 percent). Parallels Desktop was faster than Fusion in some individual tests, Fusion was faster in others, and in the rest the differences were almost too close to call. Parallels Desktop 7 vs.