Well, of course there IS a reason, and we all know what it is. There’s absolutely no reason not to include that MacBook Pro (and other older Macs) in the last of Macs that support Windows 10 in Boot Camp. Now that Apple made TRIM support native in Yosemite, a 2012 MacBook Pro (non-retina) could serve one as a great desktop replacement laptop for years to come as long as the hard drive is replaced with an SSD. Back then, there were issues with Yosemite and Trim Enabler, so I didn’t want to install a third-party SSD into that MacBook Pro.

The Boot Camp 3.0 installation automatically removed the Boot Camp 2.1 drivers that it was going to update and then installed the newer 3.0 ones. That 2012 MacBook Pro was a very decent laptop, and the only problem I really had with it was the fact that it had a hard drive instead of an SSD. I just installed Boot Camp 3.0 from the Snow Leopard DVD onto my MacBook Pro 17 (Mid 09) which is running Windows 7 64bit RTM and had Boot Camp 2.1 previously installed on it. In fact, I just replaced my MacBook Pro 2012 (non-retina) with MacBook Pro 2014 (Retina) in January 2015. Even though all of the Macs in my possession are included in the list that support Windows 10 in Boot Camp, I have relatives who own earlier models of Macs, such as Mac Mini 2011, for instance, or all sorts of Macbook Pros. The fact that Windows 10 is not supported on earlier hardware is strange to say the least. The use of Windows in virtual machines has little (or nothing at all) to do with Boot Camp.

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