You can always nuke the partition and redo it later if you like, and as long as you're on the same MacBook, you'll be fine. If you buy a retail copy of Windows 10 for the regular price, you can switch it between machines as long as only one of them is active at once.Įither way, you'll be able to wipe and restore Windows 10 to it pretty much anytime as it authorizes based on information gleaned from your motherboard, if you don't feel like keeping it on there constantly. If you get a key like the one play asia sells, it can only be used on that hardware since its intended for system builders/OEMs and tied to that hardware essentially forever. Going legal is quite worth it, frankly.Īs far as working on different machines, it depends on what kind you get. I got a perfectly legal Win10 key from for a shade over $20.

I can only answer a few of your questions, as I only recently rejoined the Mac world from the dark PC realm, but I'll try! Lastly, how do windows keys work? If i activate my windows key once, is it locked forever for that installation of windows? if i were to delete my windows drive, would i have to get a new key for windows? I've only got 128gb so I don't want to waste it with junk i don't use in windows 10 pro. how would this reformat process go on bootcamp? Do i just reset my mac booted in windows like a regular pc? or do i have to go through the bootcamp process again and arrange my drives?Īlso does anyone have any experience with windows 10 education? Im tempted to it since my school offers it, seeing how microsoft advertises how its like a pro version of windows, im worried it is going to use up my mbp's storage. In my experience, windows slows down after a while so ideally, i would like to reformat my windows periodically. How many of you actually activate your windows in bootcamp? I installed bootcamp and windows is finally bothering me to get a product key for my windows 10.Im thinking of buying a windows 10 for my bootcamp, but im worried that if i ever feel like deleting my drive, i will have wasted my product key.

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