Macbook with 16:10 screen

Can anyone give me a list of new, or almost new/current Macbook models that have a 16:10 display aspect ratio AND will run Windows?

It's been years that Windows-based laptops (Dell, Thinkpads, etc) offered a 16:10 AR laptop, and I was told that Apple held on for much longer. I don't mind paying a premium even if it means I wipe out MacOS in favor of Windows.

What are some of my choices?

All of them???

All are glossy though. Give MacOS a chance. I use it with VMWare and Windows in that. Great combo

yeah, pretty much all of them because of the retina display is 16:10, just gotta run bootcamp or VM to get windows.

Valnar said:

Can anyone give me a list of new, or almost new/current Macbook models that have a 16:10 display aspect ratio AND will run Windows?

It's been years that Windows-based laptops (Dell, Thinkpads, etc) offered a 16:10 AR laptop, and I was told that Apple held on for much longer. I don't mind paying a premium even if it means I wipe out MacOS in favor of Windows.

What are some of my choices?

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Honestly if you're not going to run OSX, don't bother with buying a Macbook. You may as well keep the price premium in your pocket. Having a 16:10 aspect ratio is a small consideration in a laptop purchase. If you want to spend that cash and not run Windows, just buy a Razer laptop with a QHD display. A much faster video card. And a load of other features (like a touch screen display if you so desire).

If you must buy an MBP because it's basically the only thing that runs 16:10 on a laptop, just be prepared for a lot of headaches.
You will need to keep some amount of OSX on the machine so you can still get firmware updates. Also, battery life in Windows sucks (terrible management), so that 10 hour battery life will likely be around 2. Fan management will suck. The beautiful trackpad also has terrible drivers in Windows.

The long and the short is, running Windows on a Macbook Pro was always designed to be a bandaid. You "can" do it, but Apple themselves don't encourage it, and they discourage it by only doing the absolute minimum they have to, to get Windows to run on their system(s). In other words, running Windows is a luxury to run as a "utility" not to run it 24/7.
If you want to ignore me, that's fine. But it will NOT be a great experience. It will feel like very expensive hardware that isn't operating the way it should. Buy a Surface. Buy a Razer. Buy a Thinkpad. Buy a Yoga. Buy basically any other option if your goal is to run Windows 24/7, or even run Windows 51+% of the time.

If you want to run Windows as a VM inside of OSX, that's an entirely different story. HOWEVER, if all you're going to do is run Windows in a VM and then literally not touch OSX while you're VMing, you're still left hampered and gimped. As you won't have direct access to the video card, nor will you be able to use all the cores in Windows and share RAM. So once again you may as well buy a PC.

I agree, if you buy a MacBook run macOS. I learned to love it, now I hate when I have to use Windows 10.

That being said, if you want premium machine it's hard to beat a MacBook and from what I see most of the "premium" PCs are pretty high in price too, shell out a little more for a MacBook that will last twice as long.

So one could argue that a MacBook is still the best windows machine. I just don't like the mac touchpad in windows native, it like they gimped it on on purpose. I saw just use Windows as a VM when needed. However I have use natice boot camp and it's perfectly fine. Something to consider, if the MacBook has a discrete gpu then native windows will only use it, not the intel gpu so it runs hotter and has less battery life.