Turning my Windows Laptop into a MacBook (for Logic Pro)

[special]

OMG, what a pain in the butt if you really want/need to do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u9hv91cWFI

[Fritz]

yeow!

[Forrest]

55 reboots/changes to get the OS Ventura installed, and he got it working. Many, many hours later and it works! A for effort. Wait until he tries to install a system update, which borks the whole system and everything has to be redone!

[kj]

The last thing you want to use a frankenmac for is audio. Silly.

[pqrst]

I wonder if it is of a matter of the specific hardware being temperamental. I was recently reminded how nice and smooth Apple brand hardware is to work with, when I tried to install win 10 updates on a windows laptop. It took hours of diwnloads, restarts, error messages just to update from the equivalent of a .3 update. If I hadn’t had time, I would have given up. Arggh.

[gabester]

Just want to note that the Acer Aspire E5-575G used in the video seems to be hardware whose drivers were last updated in 2017 for Windows 10...

[Fritz]

kj wrote:
The last thing you want to use a frankenmac for is audio. Ridiculously inf^gsane Silly.

FTFY

[special]

pqrst wrote:
I wonder if it is of a matter of the specific hardware being temperamental. I was recently reminded how nice and smooth Apple brand hardware is to work with, when I tried to install win 10 updates on a windows laptop. It took hours of diwnloads, restarts, error messages just to update from the equivalent of a .3 update. If I hadn’t had time, I would have given up. Arggh.

I updated from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and it was very, very smooth.

The tricky part was to figure out what setting to change in BIOS to enable AMD Secure Computing (or something like that). Then the Windows 11 compatibility check passed and the install was super easy.

[Forrest]

Microsoft does not support Windows 11 on that Acer with a 7th gen Intel CPU.

Windows 11 support starts at Intel 8th gen

[kj]

I never had problems with updates on my windows machines, but I think audio/midi drivers have to be super optimized, so I think it’s relatively likely any differences in hardware can really bork them. One driver I had installed at the kernel level and that’s bound to be pretty inflexible as far as hardware expectations.