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Has anyone ran win10 on a mac before? If so whats your opinions?

Sick looking at OSX and fancy reverting to windows but don't want the hassle of changing my laptop,

What you guys think?
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I have win10 running through boot camp on my 2016 MacBook Pro 15". Everything works if that's what your asking. I do prefer MacOS on the laptop though.
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I ran bootcamp in the past, and honestly I wouldn't recommend it.
I think it is more of a pain in the ass to constantly reboot your computer to swap the OS, than to just buy a separate pc.

Windows runs well on bootcamp, I just don't like rebooting.
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Bootcamp works fine, but I only use it to play video games. MacOS on my 2016 MBP is much smoother while windows feel clunkier.
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please dont do it, you bought a mac for apple, if you wanted to use windows 10 its doable but you may as well just get a windows based pc. The macbook will not be efficient as it could be.

Also its a insult to windows to put it on a mac, Microsoft will find you...and format that hdd/ssd/m.2
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There's a program called Parallels for Mac that you can use to run WIndows 10 on OSX. I use it for my Macbook Pro, and iMac. The people above clearly have very little experience when it comes to this. Using Parallels you can run WIndows and OSX at the same time, and using "Coherence mode" you can have Windows better integrated into your OSX. For example, you can have Windows apps in your Launchpad, even when Parallels is closed. When you click on them Parallels will automatically launch, and your Windows application will be launched. I prefer Coherence mode, because it's better aesthetically, opposed to having Windows run in a regular OSX window. In Coherence your apps you minimize will go directly into the dock as well. All your files in OSX can also be used in Windows running on Parallels, and vice versa. Obviously with this, since two OSX operating systems are running, the more RAM you have, the better. My iMac has 32gb, so Parallels runs flawlessly on there to the point I can still have Google Chrome, sublime, XCode, and other applications open in OSX running simultaneously. My Macbook Pro has its max of 12gb (I believe, but definitely no more than 12gb), and I try to limit my applications running is OSX (not including Parallels) to usually just one. It should be noted that Parallels requires you to commit a customizable set amount of your RAM to it when it's running, and I believe you can set a portion of your storage to particular Parallels vms. In terms of RAM, I would suggest downloading "Memory Clean" from the App Store to help manage how much RAM is being used, and is available; it'll definitely save you from crashing and it's free btw.
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I ran and I won't say it was perfect. If you have time to tweak it then it's probably fine. But if you want up and running, nope. It got my iMac freezing all the time so I just re-installed it. It helped a little but I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoy it on my ASUS laptop.
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