Book How To Obtain Versions

Apples website isnt exactly forthcoming on how to obtain versions of their software for vintage hardware.

It does everything I want for a portable coding, writing and occasional editing device.

Im stuck with macOS High Sierra, without an option to upgrade without shadowy patches.

Even if I could keep up with Mojave and beyond, the hardware might just not be fast enough anymore to give me an enjoyable experience.

Apples recommended way is to do all this from macOS, using their own Bootcamp setup.

However, being the hacker that I am, I thought perhaps Ill try the Windows Only experience.

I thought Id take some notes on how I did this step by step, and give you my opinions if this was an adventure worth undertaking.

I didnt want to touch my current installation of High Sierra.

In case my Windows 10 Folly wasnt going to be successful, I would have something to go back to in a jiffy.

Even those awkward special keys worked out of the box, such as volume, display and keyboard dimming.

I was very impressed, and felt almost sorry to overwrite CentOS with Windows.

Its just good to know that I have another OS to try some day.

On PC hardware, Id usually go into the BIOS and tweak the boot sequence, making sure that the CD drive comes before the hard disk.

It worked great Windows gave me the message to press any key to boot from CD, which starts the installation process.

Ive not been able to try this myself, but apparently thats how its done.

There were a few more privacy related questions than I had remembered from all my years with Windows installations, but once properly answered, we had the regular blue Windows desktop looking at us.

Book Drivers For Apple

Youd think with something so open and supportive as Windows would simply include the necessary and openly available drivers for Apple hardware in its inventory.

But no: Windows simply tries its best to find a generic driver for things like the trackpad, keyboard, graphics card and so forth.

Bootcamp is Apples way of supporting their own hardware on Windows.

It once was a big selling feature for converting users who came from Windows.

It lets you boot the Mac into Windows mode (from macOS), and go back to macOS at any time with a simple restart (from Windows).

Theres a lot of trickery going on under the hood, most of which I didnt need for my project, but the Bootcamp Drivers do support the hardware we need under Windows.

Its specifically designed to extract the drivers we need, without having to start the Apple-made installer from macOS.

Windows 10 For Mac Book