I can consider myself lucky that I managed to install Windows 11 (Insider Preview) on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid. 2012), without using any hack. I just initially installed Windows 10 through Boot Camp Assistant, then I easily upgraded to Windows 11. So, can you install Windows 11 on Mac?
Installation Windows 11 on Mac It will no longer be so simple when Micorsoft will launch Windows 11 for the general public, and most users asks “How will we install Windows 11 on Mac?“.
Why can't Windows 11 install on Mac / Intel (theoretically)
As we know, Apple offers Windows installation support on Mac via Boot Camp Assistant. A utility that allows the installation of Windows in Dual-Boot, totally independent of the maccos operating system, but with drivers optimized for hardware architecture typical of Mac computers. As a parenthesis, on a Mac you can not only have Windows installed, even if as I said it is independent. Maccos must be mandatory.
At the old versions of Windows (including Windows 10), users knew that they can be installed smoothly on older caps and laptops, which in the past they rolled Windows 7, Windows 8 or even Windows Vista or XP. With the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft greatly restricts the computer models on which the new operating system can be installed and emphasizes the users' data security by entering as hardware requirements TPM 2.0 si Secure Boot (UEFI).
In plus, Windows 11 can only be installed on a computer with at least 1GHz with architecture 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, graphic support for DirectX 12 and Minim 64 GB free on the storage space.
In terms of Windows installation on Mac, there are two factors that will do impossible installation of Windows 11 on a Mac. Hardware and firmware.
First of all, it will never be able to install Windows (any version) on a M1 face or any other generation of Apple Silicon face. Windows operating systems are designed for Intel or AMD processors architecture.
Users who have Mac or MacBook with Intel processors (whether they are newer generation), will continue to install Windows 10, but Windows 11 hardware requirements will not be borne. And here we refer first to TPM – Trusted Platform Module – A way of controlling and storing cryptographic keys, for which Apple does not provide support. No matter how new a Mac (Intel) is, it will not have support for the TPM 2.0 standard, which makes it Incopatible with Windows 11.
Apple could take a step in the back and come up with a firmware upgrade to support the support for TPM 2.0, it is still unlikely that this is happening, given that Apple gives up with quick steps on Mac, MacBook and IMAC, in favor of their own chips (M1, currently) Apple Silicon.
All the less than Apple to somehow allow the Windows operating system an alternative through the security subsystem Secure Enclave.
Users who managed to install Windows 11 on Mac will benefit from this operating system until it is launched for the general public, then you will need to go back to Windows 10.
Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. Your device may continue to receive Insider Preview build until Windows 11 is generally available, at which time it is recommended to clean install to Windows 10.
For many Mac users I do not think it is a great tragedy that not Windows 11 will not be present on Mac, but for there are many computer owners and laptops bought after 2018 on no negligible amounts, which do not support TPM 2.0 and do not fulfill the hardware requirements of Windows 11. Many HP laptops are in this situation, but the problem also appears at ASUS, ACUROVO.
