Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot
by JohnTHaller on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:49PM
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If you meant an Early 2013 MacBook Pro, the current macOS Big Sur doesn't support that. If you meant a Late 2013 MacBook Pro, macOS Monterey releasing later this year drops support for it and all MacBook Air/Pro before 2015 as well as all MacBooks before 2016.
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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot
by gjsman-1000 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:53PM
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Old versions of MacOS get about 2-3 years of additional security updates. So if you bought a 2017 laptop with a 7th gen processor, you got 8 years of support from 2017 to 2025. Unless you bought Surface Studio 2, which is $3499 from Microsoft and comes with a 7th gen chip so it only gets 4 years of support. If you bought a 2013 MacBook which just got cut off at Big Sur, you'll probably get supported to 2024, or 11 years.
Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot
by Wowfunhappy on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:32PM
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Yes, Apple sucks at legacy support in many respects. Luckily, Macs are only ~10% of the PC market, so they can't create as much of an e-waste disaster.
Two wrongs don't make a right and I expect better of Microsoft.