| Yes, with Apple's Boot Camp drivers it actually makes a very nice Windows machine. I used to run Windows in a Parallels VM under OSX, and that worked well for a while, but at some point my OSX installation started getting very slow, and Parallels even slower. So I started using Boot Camp more and found it to be very snappy. Also I was doing some VR work on Windows, and that only works on physical hardware. (The MBPR is not a great machine for VR, but it's good enough for the system integration stuff I was doing.) The only hardware issues I've run into compared to running Windows in Parallels are: * Apple's Ethernet dongle is not hot-pluggable in Windows like it is in OSX/macOS. A reboot is required if you want to plug it in. You can plug and unplug the Ethernet cable on the fly, just not the dongle itself. * By default, the trackpad two-finger scrolling works in the traditional "scrollbar" style (swipe your fingers down and the display content moves up). I prefer the "natural" style where it is more like using a touchscreen. I found an easy registry tweak to fix this on this page: http://waded.org/2013/01/15/perfecting-trackpad-scrolling-in... I didn't use any of the other tweaks on that page, just the scroll direction. * The touchpad driver is not as good as the one in OSX. Specifically, it's much more susceptible to false right clicks, and it's fussier about the style of click-dragging where you hold the touchpad down with one finger and drag with another. In OSX this works pretty naturally; in Windows it works only if I hold the pad down at the left bottom corner and then drag with another finger. * And of course, I miss the TrackPoint from my ThinkPads. The finishing touch was to get one of these Windows logo decals to cover up the Apple logo: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014I1ICX8/ So now my MacBook Pro is officially a WinBook Pro! |