when are boot camp drivers going to be updated ?

it's been a while since high sierra came out.


i'm wondering when Apple plans to update the boot camp utility (windows side) to recognize the APFS partition .... so that it shows up as a selectable startup option ....


i am referring to the diamond-shaped boot camp button i have in the windows 10 taskbar.

macOS High Sierra (10.13), 2.0 GHz/16GB/256GB

Posted on Apr 26, 2018 6:03 PM

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Apr 29, 2018 9:43 AM in response to Loner T

as a sanity check, a few days ago i did insert a usb drive in macos and created a new bootcamp drivers package. it downloaded them, put them on the usb drive and i went into windows and hit the repair option that came up when i executed the setup.exe file.


i assumed it would have included the latest boot camp panel and apfs drivers.


im now supposing i was wrong in that assumption.


feels like im almost there, just need the right direction to fix the issue instead of wait for apple to push it via asu ....

Apr 29, 2018 2:43 PM in response to Loner T

Loner T wrote:

Was the System Restore intentional, because it was unnecessary, if everything was working normally?



it was intentional, because i had force uninstalled the boot camp control panel .... the diamond kept loading at windows startup but was not functional. at some point i had also lost my trackpad right click function by uninstalling the boot camp driver itself.


regardless, i was able to add it back and works.


Loner T wrote:

I consider the 2013-2014 models better Macs than the 2015 and later models. Unless you need newer hardware, I suggest keeping the late 2013 models.


i agree. unfortunately tho .... faster hardware and better performance do not revisit along with the things that apple removes from previous generation products - as it moves forward. at some point in the next few years, i will need more computing power.


at that point, if i still want to continue with a new computer that runs macos, i would likely want another macbook pro.

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