Q: Anyone successful with: Upgrading to Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro 17" late 2011 running El Capitan and Bootcamp v6
Hi everybody,
I have a MacBook Pro 17" late 2011 with El Capital OS. (just upgraded to El Capitan a couple of days ago)
Now I want to upgrade my Windows partition from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
According to the Windows 10 Upgrade advisor application the only incompatibility I have is my Bluetooth (Apple Broadcom Bluetooth) and it is advising me to contact/check with Apple/Bootcamp.
So I did. I checked with the Apple Bootcamp pages and I became very worried.
Apparently I can't upgrade to Windows 10 because Bootcamp (Apple) does not support my hardware (late 2011).
I bought my computer in 2012, i.e. three years ago... it is painful to read this news.
My options are:
1) Not to upgrade to Windows 10 on my Windows partition which is not desirable for me on the long run because I have dependent software which I need to run on a Windows 8/10 OS system.
2) Upgrade despite Apple's (Bootcamp) warnings and fix the problems (band aid approach)
3) Buy another partitioning / dual boot solution like Parallels
Has any one tried an upgrade successfully based on a hardware configuration *NOT* listed in the Apple/Bootcamp support list?
Any recipes out there?
Thank you in advance
MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Posted on Dec 28, 2015 4:10 AM