You can also migrate your Boot Camp partition to either of these tools before you replace your current Intel-based Mac with a future ARM-based Mac - as long as you also get an ARM-compatible version of your desktop virtualization software, of course. Note that both Fusion and Parallels can use your Boot Camp partition as a guest OS, so you can start using Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp and, if you find the rebooting tiresome, you can switch to Fusion or Parallels while retaining your existing Boot Camp installation - no need to reinstall Windows or its apps. I suggest Mac-mainly users and Mac-heavy businesses forgo Boot Camp entirely, since it will go away in the coming years after new Intel-based Macs stop coming from Apple. Users or companies that want to standardize on Boot Camp will need to avoid those new Macs. Note that the forthcoming ARM-based Macs will not support Boot Camp and thus won’t run Windows that way. So it’s best for when you will use Windows only for a sustained time - such as if you use a home Mac for work, where you boot into Windows for the workday and then into macOS for personal use outside of work hours. And it has the advantage of being no-cost.īut it has the disadvantage of requiring you to restart the Mac each time you want to use Windows, and then to restart to go back to macOS. It has the advantage of running Windows 10 directly on your Intel Mac’s hardware, so it runs faster than Windows on a virtual machine. The Boot Camp capability in macOS is a great way to run Windows if you think you’ll only need to do so occasionally.

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