The 150 percent scaling level looked the best to our eyes, though some of you will probably be able to get by at 125 percent, too. Just right-click the desktop, go to Screen Resolution, click 'make text and other items larger or smaller,' and choose a scaling option you find comfortable. It’s not a difficult problem to fix, though. The first time you boot to the Windows desktop after everything is installed, you’ll notice that everything onscreen is too small-for whatever reason, the automatic screen detection and UI scaling that happens on Windows PCs doesn’t happen here. If this happens, hold down the Option key as the computer boots and select the USB drive from the list (it may show up as 'EFI Boot'). Update: You may run into an issue where the MacBook won't boot from the USB drive after running the Boot Camp Assistant, or where it's not selectable as a startup target in the Startup Disk preference pane. Make sure your laptop is fully charged before you begin the whole process, but, using a USB 3.0 flash drive, we had no trouble creating a Boot Camp install disk, rebooting and installing Windows, and installing the Boot Camp support software and drivers with battery life to spare. USB Type-C flash drives are still unicorns, so at a bare minimum you’ll want Apple’s $19 USB Type-C to Type-A adapter or a generic equivalent. The one difference, of course, is the whole port thing. Get a Windows 8.1 ISO on your MacBook somehow, launch the Boot Camp Assistant app from the Utilities folder, hook up a USB drive that’s 8GB or greater in capacity, decide how much space you want to dedicate to the Windows partition, and let it do its thing. The actual process of creating a Boot Camp install drive and downloading your Windows drivers hasn’t changed at all. But there are still things you need to know if you intend to buy a MacBook to run Windows.

If you’ve used Boot Camp before, there aren’t many surprises. Since Apple made the Intel switch and introduced its Boot Camp software in 2006, there’s been a small but significant group of people who have chosen to use Apple’s hardware to run Microsoft’s software, either as a secondary or primary operating system.īecause the new MacBook is an entirely new product rather than a straightforward refresh, we spent some time installing Windows and taking it for a spin. Most people who buy Macs are doing it to run OS X, but you’d be surprised by the number of comments and e-mails we get in response to Mac reviews asking about how Windows runs on the hardware.

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