
Parallels was still a viable and popular option for those who wanted to run Windows on Macs, but didn’t want to dedicate substantial space on their hard drive for a disk-partitioned setup. Apple has never suggested it will be bringing Boot Camp Assistant to Macs powered by its own chips. With this method, users could choose which OS to launch when booting.

Microsoft officially authorised Windows 11 arm installs on Thursday.īefore Apple’s M1 chip was released, its Macs were powered by Intel CPUs and supported Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant - software that allowed users to partition their hard drives to install Windows 10 on the computer natively. The virtualisation software has been supported on Apple silicon Macs since 2021, but Windows installs have always required unofficial workarounds.
