Apple’s move to Apple Silicon paid off big-time, because the company’s in-house systems-on-a-chips are industry leaders in power efficiency. Leaving behind Intel was the obvious choice following a few rough years when the chipmaker failed to innovate. However, we did lose a handful useful features following the Apple Silicon transition, such as Boot Camp. It was a built-in feature on Intel Macs that could painlessly partition your computer’s drive and allow for dual-booting macOS and Windows. Most people use Boot Camp for just that switching between Windows and macOS interchangeably as needed. But my favorite use for Boot Camp is to revive old Macs that can’t run newer versions of macOS, or seemingly have hardware limitations.
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I used ChromeOS Flex on an 18-year-old MacBook and it worked
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