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Sep 7, 2015 3:20 PM in response to michaelsip4by Loner T,Microsoft requirements are much more lenient than Apple's which can be seen at Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support . Most of these are related to driver availability for your specific Mac which are certified for W10. You can take a chance like many others and try W10, and if it does not work, you can roll back to the the Windows 32-bit version you have.
Please also consider the following from the link...
Upgrading from 32-bit versions of Windows
If you have an existing 32-bit installation of Windows on your Mac, you'll need to back up your important files so that you can remove the existing Windows partition and install a 64 bit version of Windows.
- Back up any important files from your Windows partition.
- Use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the existing Windows partition.
- Then, use Boot Camp Assistant to install a 64-bit version of Windows 10 on your Mac.
- After you're finished installing Windows, copy your important files back to your Windows drive.
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Sep 8, 2015 4:42 AM in response to Loner Tby michaelsip4,Loner, I appreciate the feed back....
I also understand your mindset completely (anticipating doing the update / roll back option) with a worse case
scenario of a complete rebuild of bootcamp side to bring me back to where I was.
I have attempted to beta test various scenarios using virtual box with little or no success at the 64bit level and 32bit
levels
I was somewhat hoping someone had my configuration, took the update and all went well for them.
But I guess if it went well they wouldn't be on the support forums :-)
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Sep 8, 2015 5:00 AM in response to michaelsip4by Loner T,If you look through the Bootcamp discussions, there have been several iMac/MBP 2010/2011 discussions about W10. As long as you have a good backup/restore strategy, it is definitely worth a try. Please post back on this discussion as you progress or have questions, and we can work through them.
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Sep 12, 2015 8:16 AM in response to Loner Tby michaelsip4,On a positive note I have complete functionality using the VirtualBox (had to turn on NX functionality )
so beta test completed successfully. Next step will be boot camp
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Sep 26, 2015 7:06 AM in response to Loner Tby michaelsip4,General Question,
Has anyone taken the widows 10 / 32 byte update - with out rebuilding bootcamp or updating drivers ?