Apple and Microsoft have remained stubbornly tight-lipped on support for Windows 11 in Boot Camp, but unless Apple finds some way to fake the TPM chip in the same way Parallels does, you simply won’t be able to install Windows 11 in Boot Camp. What’s more, some Windows applications just won’t work on the ARM version of Windows, making it something of a gamble if you’re relying on Windows for your work, for example.Īlas, however, it seems Boot Camp is being slowly shuttered.
Here you must use Windows 10 on ARM, which is still a preview build that’s not officially supported by Microsoft, so if you run into any difficulties you’re pretty much on your own. It works - I’ve tested it myself - although if you like shifting your virtual machines between different hardware and user accounts, the virtual TPM complicates matters, requiring you to fiddle around with Apple’s Keychain Access system. Older Intel Mac owners have to perform a little sleight of hand, for example, using Parallels to install a virtual TPM that basically fools Windows 11 into thinking that the underlying Mac hardware has a TPM. The recently updated Parallels Desktop 17, for example, allows Mac owners to install Windows on their machine, whether they’re running the older Intel or M1 Macs.