I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook. Also, 991 Turbo S wallpaper.

"SonorousSpeedJoe" (SonorousSpeedJoe) 08/26/2015 at 16:35 • Filed to: None

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Since my next semester of college starts up next week, I installed Windows 10 Pro on my Macbook Pro (Mid-2012 Retina) via Boot Camp Assistant.

It’s a lot better than it was when I ran it on VMware (and looks better since it detected the Retina resolution), but it chews through the battery (~3 hours on one charge) and occasionally chokes when I ask it to handle a bunch of different tasks (i.e. stream a YouTube video in one tab, and upload 700 MB of files to OneDrive through another Chrome tab, have a few other Chrome tabs open, and open a File Explorer window). Chrome has a reputation for being resource-heavy, and I did force Threaded Optimization on for Chrome via the Nvidia Control Panel, so I guess that’s why the battery drains as quickly as it has in the short while that I’ve used it.

JGrabowMSt > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 16:37

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Oh, turn off the hardware acceleration for chrome. The new WebM codecs from Google do an amazing thing for both bandwidth and playback through more basic hardware.

SonorousSpeedJoe > JGrabowMSt 08/26/2015 at 16:46

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Cool, thanks. Is it fine if I just leave it in Auto?

JGrabowMSt > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 16:50

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Yeah, you can leave the nVidia program in Auto and turn off the hardware acceleration in Chrome. Should do wonders for your battery life. I used to use a program in OS X that would allow you to select which graphics card instead of auto switching, and I would leave it on Integrated and get amazing battery life compared to letting it choose, but more recently it’s lost that functionality. Sucks.

Mercedes Streeter > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 16:55

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Nah, Bootcamp just sucks. If you can fool the MacBook into natively installing Windows, you’ll be all set. :) My Mac runs Windows 10 like it were OS X.

SonorousSpeedJoe > Mercedes Streeter 08/26/2015 at 17:00

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My dad insisted on using Boot Camp, so I didn’t bother looking into any alternative methods LOL. Oh, well.

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 17:34

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I have 7 on my iMac, should I consider putting 8 or 10 on? I’ve heard bad things about advertising in Windows 10.

SonorousSpeedJoe > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 08/26/2015 at 17:53

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Advertising? Windows 10 does have Live Tiles and will ask if you want to opt into/keep on certain things as you dig around the OS, but I just answer the prompts in the negative and clear out the Live Tile stuff that I don’t care for - I think it can be pared back to a similar level of unobtrusiveness as Windows 7. Windows 7 is still my favorite since I’ve used it for a long time, and Windows 10 does occasionally choke when I ask it to do stuff (as I mentioned).

I don’t consider Windows 10 to be outright bad - I’m fine with it on a laptop that I use for web browsing and completing school assignments with MATLAB, Creo Parametric, Autodesk Inventor, etc. For a computer that’s used for gaming and heavier workloads, like a desktop PC that I have, I’m sticking with what I know by keeping 7 on there until DX12 games come out and 10 becomes more intuitive and stable through software updates.

I’m not the most knowledgeable person you could ask about this stuff though, LOL. JGrabowMSt and other folks on here could probably give you a much better answer.

TheOnelectronic > Mercedes Streeter 08/26/2015 at 18:08

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But... Boot Camp IS natively installed... Boot Camp itself is just a utility to partition the drive and carry over drivers for the hardware. I may be wrong on this, but I’m very confident that I’m not. It’s not like a virtual machine or anything.

It’s never given me problems.

1111111111111111111111 > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 20:03

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That’s weird about the battery life. It’s all x86 hardware. I wonder why the quick drain?

SonorousSpeedJoe > 1111111111111111111111 08/26/2015 at 20:26

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IDK - I guess Mac OS is just better optimized for the hardware? I’ve been browsing with hardware acceleration disabled in Chrome and Nvidia Threaded Optimization on Auto (as per JGrabowMSt’s advice) so that I can see if it makes any significant difference, but it looks like it’ll be a wash - I’m probably going to get 3 hours on this charge, too.

1111111111111111111111 > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 20:35

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I just noticed you’re using bootcamp. That’s the problem.

SonorousSpeedJoe > 1111111111111111111111 08/26/2015 at 20:38

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Wonderful, LOL. I wish I’d bothered to look into Boot Camp before we’d gone through with this install, but I can at least hold off on using Windows 10 unless there are applications that I’d rather be running in it for school assignments.

1111111111111111111111 > SonorousSpeedJoe 08/26/2015 at 20:42

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Honestly, go back to the mac os and use VMware player. It’s great for anything except 3d graphics.

SonorousSpeedJoe > 1111111111111111111111 08/26/2015 at 20:46

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Yeah, there’s always that option.

Mercedes Streeter > TheOnelectronic 08/27/2015 at 10:59

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I have an older Mac, built in the days when Boot Camp used emulation to run Windows. http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/

It is true that newer Macs and newer versions do not use emulation, but for many Macs and MacBooks that are still running around out there, they are running the old craptastic version of Boot Camp.

Also, by not using Boot Camp, I still retain unlimited control of hard drive partitions. The Mac treats Windows like an OS X partition. :D When I benchmark the Mac running Windows, it scores better than OS X...which is both hilarious and sad. :(

TheOnelectronic > Mercedes Streeter 08/27/2015 at 12:28

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Ah. I didn't know it used to work differently.