But some users might want to use the two operating systems at the same time.
Boot Camp keeps Windows entirely separate from your installation of macOS. Boot Camp comes built into macOS on Intel Macs and makes it dead simple to install a copy of Windows on a separate partition on your Mac. Apple has offered Boot Camp since it first introduced Intel Macs back in the mid-2000s. Here’s how to do it.įirst and foremost, Windows. It’s fairly easy to get the three biggest platforms that aren’t made by Apple up and running on a Mac, even at the same time. Lots of folks like to think of the Mac as just another product in Apple’s precious walled garden, but many don’t know that you can actually run virtually any operating system on a Mac with a little bit of work.