Windows 11

[pshufd]

One minor point on Windows 11 is screen resolutions that they provide. On a 4k monitor, they jump from 2k to 4k whereas the resolutions below 2k provide a lot more finely tuned resolutions. macOS provides two between 2k and 4k and I like the additional options. I could use a custom resolution tool but that will take some experimentation to find.

One other thing that would help is custom scaling but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

 

[TechRunner]

One minor point on Windows 11 is screen resolutions that they provide. On a 4k monitor, they jump from 2k to 4k whereas the resolutions below 2k provide a lot more finely tuned resolutions. macOS provides two between 2k and 4k and I like the additional options. I could use a custom resolution tool but that will take some experimentation to find.

One other thing that would help is custom scaling but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Spot on. Windows scaling is...odd. People complain about Mac OS scaling, but try getting Windows 11 to play nice on a 3440 X 1440 widescreen. There might be a way, but I haven't found it yet.

 

[ATmahe]

Scaling also depends on the size of the monitor, not only the native resolution.

 

[camelia]

Is there any threads here at macrumors to help me install Windows 11 on unsupported MBP?

I have watched several YouTube videos and now I am very confused because they use different methods 😭

Thanks
Camelia

 

[pshufd]

Is there any threads here at macrumors to help me install Windows 11 on unsupported MBP?

I have watched several YouTube videos and now I am very confused because the use different methods 😭

Thanks
Camelia

It's on my list of things to do to put Windows 11 on my 2015 MacBook Pro and I plan to do it this summer as W10 goes unsupported this fall.

I have an idea as to what to do but it's a bit complicated, even for PCs that don't have TPM.

 

[camelia]

It's on my list of things to do to put Windows 11 on my 2015 MacBook Pro and I plan to do it this summer as W10 goes unsupported this fall.

I have an idea as to what to do but it's a bit complicated, even for PCs that don't have TPM.

My plan is for a MBP 15" Mid 2014 Intel i7 2.8 GHz 16 GB NVIDIA GF GT 750M and
MBP 13" Mid 2012 Intel Core i5 2.5 GHZ 16 GB Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB replacing the HDD for a SSD

Thanks
Camelia

 

[Snowlover]

It's on my list of things to do to put Windows 11 on my 2015 MacBook Pro and I plan to do it this summer as W10 goes unsupported this fall.

I have an idea as to what to do but it's a bit complicated, even for PCs that don't have TPM.

Do you currently have windows 10 installed? If not can you borrow a windows machine?
If so, you can download the latest version of Rufus to make a windows 11 installer that bypasses all the restrictions. Then you can run setup.exe from it to update widows 10 to windows 11. Or you can boot into it to do a clean install.
This is the simplest way I have found to install/upgrade to 11.

Use Rufus to Create a Windows 11 Install disk that bypasses TPM, Secure Boot requirements (How-to).

This guide shows how to use RUFUS to create a Windows 11 install disk on a USB, to bypass the TPM, Secure Boot and Microsoft Account requirements to setup Windo

www.wintips.org

 

[pshufd]

Do you currently have windows 10 installed? If not can you borrow a windows machine?
If so, you can download the latest version of Rufus to make a windows 11 installer that bypasses all the restrictions. Then you can run setup.exe from it to update widows 10 to windows 11. Or you can boot into it to do a clean install.
This is the simplest way I have found to install/upgrade to 11.

Use Rufus to Create a Windows 11 Install disk that bypasses TPM, Secure Boot requirements (How-to).

This guide shows how to use RUFUS to create a Windows 11 install disk on a USB, to bypass the TPM, Secure Boot and Microsoft Account requirements to setup Windo

www.wintips.org

Yes, I have Windows 10 installed on my 2015 MacBook Pro.

I also have a large Windows 11 system (i7-10700, 128 GB RAM, 1060, 3 TB SSD), and a bunch of other Macs.

 

[rin67630]

Spot on. Windows scaling is...odd.

I'm afraid you did not get the point.
Windows scaling and all Linux screen compositing systems are not scaling the screen, but pass the scaling factor to the apps, which draw their window with bigger elements using the full resolution, getting crisp results without any loss of resolution. Only very old (pre-XP apps) are upscaled and look somewhat blurry.

MacOS does scaling using a very primitive method, fooling the apps to get a lower resolution, drawing their windows at a low resolution and upscaling the whole screen with an extrapolation. That returns quite suboptimal results.

On Retina screens, the apps get additionally the ability to use natively the quad resolution. That is why only the quad resolution is really crisp, all other scaled values are extrapolated.

 

[rin67630]

One other thing that would help is custom scaling but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

That is really obvious.

It works really nice at 175% with ways crisper apps then using macOS at intermediate resolutions.

 

[TechRunner]

I'm afraid you did not get the point.
Windows scaling and all Linux screen compositing systems are not scaling the screen, but pass the scaling factor to the apps, which draw their window with bigger elements using the full resolution, getting crisp results without any loss of resolution. Only very old (pre-XP apps) are upscaled and look somewhat blurry.

MacOS does scaling using a very primitive method, fooling the apps to get a lower resolution, drawing their windows at a low resolution and upscaling the whole screen with an extrapolation. That returns quite suboptimal results.

On Retina screens, the apps get additionally the ability to use natively the quad resolution. That is why only the quad resolution is really crisp, all other scaled values are extrapolated.

I didn't understand everything that went on under the hood. Thanks for the information/clarification.