Positives
- Full-fledged Windows experience
- Strong performance
- Full Retina display support
- Great Windows environment on a Mac
- Boot Camp is part of macOS
Negatives
- Issues with APFS during install
- Couldn't find macOS startup disk
- Windows will shorten battery life
- Requires at least 40GB of allocated space
There is another way to take the Windows experience to the next level: run it on a Mac using Boot Camp. Apple's multi-boot utility – which has been included with the Mac operating system since OS X 10.5 Leopard – guides users through installing Windows on Intel-based Macs, and it's actually pretty easy to get started if all the necessary components are in place. What sets the Windows experience apart from any virtualization software is that users can take full advantage of their hardware in every possible way, the Retina display included, so long as you agree to allocate at least 40GB of space on the startup disk for this operating system. In other words, Boot Camp allows you to run Windows without the compromise of using just one processor or only a limited amount of RAM, the sorts of restrictions that would be imposed by virtual machines as they balance the various resources to optimize the running of two operating systems side by side. Read More…