Windows 8 on the MacBook Pro is a great experience even without touch display and retina. You have to start the Boot Camp Control Panel from the tray and switch to the Keyboard tab.There check the Use all F1, F2… box. One last word on function keys – they won’t work out of the box. Once installed and the machine restarted, everything seems to work fine, the Windows Bluetooth and Boot Camp icons are shown in the notification area, light sensor, FaceTime camera and sound work perfectly and the graphics card runs smooth like butter. Startup Disk control panel for Microsoft Windows.Boot Camp System Task Notification item (System Tray).Boot Camp control panel for Microsoft Windows.This will install a whole bunch of drivers.īased on Apple’s Boot Camp 4.0 FAQ, the Windows Support Files contain the following drivers Restart Windows 8 and insert the disc, stick and select the setup.exe in the WindowsSupport folder. In the following step follow the on screen instructions either burning a DVD/CD or copying the files to a USB drive or any folder accessible from Windows (don’t drop the files to the Mac OS’s partition, though). To solve the driver issues, you simply start the Boot Camp Assistant from your Mac OS and follow the instructions until you find yourself faced with the following dialog.Ĭhose Download the latest Windows support software from Apple and continue. Where to get the Windows 8 drivers for my MacBook Pro? Function key, keyboard backlight won’t work and the graphics chipset might reset the screen resolution between the MacBook’s native resolution and something about 800×600 from time to time. Windows8 won’t be able to detect the MacBook Pro’s WiFi at all.
Other’s simply won’t be detected at all, e.g. If you upgrade, some devices will work some won’t.Even if the Microsoft Upgrade Assistant does not show any incompatibilities with any of the MacBook’s devices in its report, they probably won’t work.Īfter installing, Windows 8 will show various devices in the Devices list indicating, there are no drivers available. I have to admit, I haven’t spent a single though on drivers before I upgraded to Windows 8 – and still I just blog from Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro. You own a MacBook Pro? You run Boot Camp? You run Mac and Windows? You want to upgrade to Windows 8 but you still hesitate because Apple has not released a new Boot Camp version supporting Windows 8? First of all: I did it.
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