Windows Phone on a MacBook? This user did it, because why not


Running Windows 10 Mobile Fire on an old MacBook is surprisingly possible. This is demonstrated by a mischievous user, who successfully completed this extreme installation. A tour de force which demonstrates to what extent Microsoft’s old OS is adaptable.

Installing Windows 10 Mobile on an old MacBook model is strangely possible // Source: Nobel Tech screenshot

Running Windows 10 Mobile on an aging MacBook… Absurd? Yes, probably a little. However, this is what a YouTuber did on the Nobel Tech channel. An improbable experience, but not entirely without interest. It demonstrates the great adaptability of Microsoft’s old mobile OS, abandoned in 2017 and whose support was definitively stopped at the end of 2019.

In the video shared by Nobel Tech, we discover that launching Windows 10 Mobile on an old Mac can be done using a bootable USB key and Apple’s Bootcamp menu. When starting, simply select the Microsoft OS for it to be launched. The video unfortunately does not reveal the details of the installation, nor its process, but the responsiveness of the old Windows Phone OS on this 2013 MacBook Retina is quite impressive.

Windows 10 Mobile, an OS gone too quickly

That being said, it seems that most of the drivers necessary for the proper functioning of the OS, as well as certain key features, are not compatible. On the video, certain slowness in the animations suggest, for example, that graphics acceleration is not supported, nor are the drivers required for Wi-Fi connectivity. Only basic keyboard and mouse commands seem otherwise supported, and it is a safe bet that animating Windows 10 Mobile in these conditions requires a lot of resources from the MacBook’s processor.

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Thanks to the flexibility of UWP (an adaptive application platform, developed by Microsoft to allow developers to easily exploit different types of display), the operating system nevertheless manages the MacBook’s 13-inch screen without problem , dynamically arranging its tiles horizontally. A small feat in itself, since Windows 10 Mobile was mainly designed to be installed on smartphones, and therefore to work on much smaller vertically oriented screens.

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