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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:52AM (#23324243)
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.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by 72deluxe on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:23AM (#23336024)
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!

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by Wowfunhappy on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:41PM (#23342271)
> 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...

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by 72deluxe on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:11PM (#23344725)
What magic do I need to perform to do this? It worked and then stopped working after a Windows 10 update and Bootcamp 5 (for my 2012 mac) doesn't know about Windows 10 drivers or something...
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