Wednesday, April 15, 2015

PC with Apple: the experience of installing Windows 8.1 on the new MacBook

In March, Apple diluted classical line of laptops MacBook Air and MacBook Pro completely new model - MacBook. This is a laptop with a diagonal of 12 inches and Retina-resolution, with a thickness of 13.1 mm body, the thinnest laptop Apple with a passive cooling system and only one port USB-C. Observers Ars Technica went on a desperate experiment - installed on the MacBook operating system Windows 8.1. The fact that they did it, can be found below.
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The first impression for the interface version of "Windows". On the new Apple laptop mode BootCamp platform operates exclusively native resolution 2304 x 1440 pixels. At the same interface elements were so small that the reviewers had to install an increase of 150%. The problem with the interface in the ultra-high resolution turned incorrect operation of some applications.
Immediately it was told the problem with the drivers. Refused to work the built-in Bluetooth-module (it is not even in the list of found devices), gesture touchpad for corporate Apple Force Touch not as a class, two-finger scrolling significantly "podglyuchivaet." An attempt to update the driver for the graphics card with built-in Windows Update mechanism has led to problems with the image, resulting in a MacBook had to reboot in safe mode and do a rollback to a previous version of the drivers.
As for battery life, depending on the objectives of the leader or Windows, or OS X. For example, in the Web-surfing MacBook to "windsurfing" lasted 574 minutes, under the control of Yosemite - 658 minutes. But when working with benchmarks results back - with graphics processing in the test Webgl OS X platform has provided 211 minutes of continuous operation, and Windows 8.1 - 289 minutes.
Battery life MacBook with Windows and OS X:
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Performance of the MacBook with Windows and OS X:

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