Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5
by asdff on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:50AM
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Bootcamp drivers are in a sorry state. Expect battery life, performance, trackpad, display to all tank.
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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:52AM
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I was recently using Bootcamp on a relative's 2020 Macbook Air, and I was generally impressed with how well everything worked. Especially the Trackpad, which I remembered being a problem under Bootcamp many years ago.
If I didn't dislike Windows so much, I thought I could see myself using that setup full time.
I didn't look at battery life though.
Even my old MacBook Pro 2012 in BootCamp is very poor under BootCamp. Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6? The display brightness and volume keys no longer work. The discrete GPU is used all the time so battery life is very bad.
The touchpad works fine though!
Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:41PM
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> Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6
I mean, I'd use whatever the heck Bootcamp Assistant downloads for me automatically. I don't think I've ever thought about Bootcamp versions.
Never had issues with brightness and volume keys either...