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Boot Camp doesn't work on my MacBook M1

Hello, Apple.

I am a second-year student of the college. I bought my MacBook Pro M1 in winter 2021 for this academic year, because I'm studying to be a programmer. This year started from learning new programming language, so all my college teachers work on Windows Operation System, but I prefer MacOS.

I decided to download Windows on my MacBook M1, but I can download it only with help of virtual machine. Also, I wanted to download WindowsOS as the second operation system but Boot Camp doesn't support MacBook on M1 chip. As a result, I need to pay for using virtual machine on my MacBook M1, so I wish you will make support of Boot Camp for the correct using of all technologies soon.

Thanks.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Sep 2, 2021 3:40 PM

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Posted on Sep 2, 2021 4:32 PM

Apple M1 is Apple silicon and an Arm-based architecture processor, and not an Intel or AMD x86 processor.


An Apple Intel x86 Mac running Boot Camp presents itself to Windows as a standard Windows x86 platform.


Boot Camp cannot make an Arm processor such as Apple M1 appear as an x86 processor. There is no emulation support.


Microsoft has not released Windows on Arm for Apple M1, though a Windows 10 ARM64 beta for Qualcomm Arm processors has been available from Microsoft for a while, and there are various reports of folks having gotten that beta working on Apple M1.


All of what Microsoft might or might not announce on 5-Oct-2021 with the debut of Windows 11 remains to be determined, as is pricing and availability. Best case for you here, that announcement includes Windows ARM64 (which can emulate x86 code).


Or you’re acquiring a hypervisor that can also emulate x86, which will be inefficient.


Or you’ll be trading / selling / swapping / returning this Apple M1 for an x86 system, or finding Windows-equivalent programming tools for macOS.


Log your feedback with Apple, as they may or may not see postings here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/


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Sep 2, 2021 4:32 PM in response to max_metelitsa

Apple M1 is Apple silicon and an Arm-based architecture processor, and not an Intel or AMD x86 processor.


An Apple Intel x86 Mac running Boot Camp presents itself to Windows as a standard Windows x86 platform.


Boot Camp cannot make an Arm processor such as Apple M1 appear as an x86 processor. There is no emulation support.


Microsoft has not released Windows on Arm for Apple M1, though a Windows 10 ARM64 beta for Qualcomm Arm processors has been available from Microsoft for a while, and there are various reports of folks having gotten that beta working on Apple M1.


All of what Microsoft might or might not announce on 5-Oct-2021 with the debut of Windows 11 remains to be determined, as is pricing and availability. Best case for you here, that announcement includes Windows ARM64 (which can emulate x86 code).


Or you’re acquiring a hypervisor that can also emulate x86, which will be inefficient.


Or you’ll be trading / selling / swapping / returning this Apple M1 for an x86 system, or finding Windows-equivalent programming tools for macOS.


Log your feedback with Apple, as they may or may not see postings here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/


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