Ability to connect the keyboard and mouse (so most likely a USB-C to USB-A adapter).The Windows installer and base installation does not have drivers for a lot of the hardware components in the MacBook, including the keyboard, trackpad and wireless. To install Windows natively, without using BootCamp assistant, is challenging in some areas. If you prefer classic text, you can just follow the rest of this article: If you are interested, I also created a YouTube video from this blogpost. Using BootCamp Assistant does work in a lot of cases, nevertheless, it’s good to have the ability to do a full installation without depending on it. This post explains how to install Windows on a 2019/2020 MacBook (Air) equiped with a T2 security chip without using BootCamp Assistant.Īs Apple released the M1 ARM-based CPU and related Mac lineup, the 2019/2020 models might be the last ones to support running Windows. Other reasons could be dropped support for older MacBooks, the ability to use a custom/modified Windows installation or if you want to install on an external drive. For example if you want to get completely rid of macOS.
Although this does work in a lot of cases, there might be reasons to manually install Windows on your MacBook. The supported method is to use BootCamp Assistant. For quite a long time now, Apple supports running Windows on your x86-based MacBook.
