For users looking to find an easy way to perform a MAC switch between windows without interruption, look no further. We’ll get into more detail about this issue below. Especially if you’re familiar with the hassle of rebooting your PC to access the other OS, you already understand the frustration involved. You still need open the OS X installer pkg file to get the the contents out, and to open a DMG file.Switching back and forth between different operating systems (OS) on the same computer can cause a lot of frustration over time.

The page was aimed at people struggling with BootCamp, but either way, it gets you to the BootCamp.pkg file, which contains the drivers. You can now proceed with Boot Camp assistant Windows installation. It’s still 660MB or more, so it’s a full CD worth of burning time.

Copy them to a USB drive, or a burnable CD.

The folder contains a nest of folders, the last of which contains a dmg disk image file.Once your pkg is downloaded, double click it and install to a folder on your hard drive so you know where to find it.Having found your 041-XXXXX number, download the BootCampESD.pkg url that has your number in it.

click Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info… -> Report -> Hardware -> and now read down the Hardware Overview looking for “Model Identifier:”

How do you know your Model Identifier? Open System Information, and look in the Hardware Overview section.

For instance the 041-2011 file contains these models: MacBook2,1 MacBook3,1 MacBook4,1 MacBook5,1 MacBook5,2 MacBook5,3 MacBook6,1 MacBook7,1 MacBookAir1,1 MacBookAir2,1 MacBookAir3,1 MacBookAir3,2 MacBookPro2,1 MacBookPro2,2 MacBookPro3,1 MacBookPro4,1 MacBookPro5,1 MacBookPro5,2 MacBookPro5,3 MacBookPro5,4 MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro6,1 MacBookPro6,2 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro8,1 MacBookPro8,2 MacBookPro8,3 MacPro1,1 MacPro2,1 MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1 Macmini2,1 Macmini3,1 Macmini4,1 iMac5,1 iMac6,1 iMac7,1 iMac8,1 iMac9,1 iMac10,1 iMac11,1 iMac11,2 iMac11,3 iMac12,1 iMac12,2.

For instance MacBookPro5,2 or Macmini4,1.

Search for the Model Identifier for your Mac.

Paste the URL for each such English.dist file into your browser and open that url.

Below each such occurrence, notice the URL for a file with the same 041-XXXXX in it and ending in English.dist, e.g.

Notice in each such URL, the /041-2011/ or similar /041-XXXXX/ bit of it.

Search for each occurrence - as at August 2012 there were 6 - of BootCampESD.pkg.

Open the file in a text editor or word processor.

is your fallback if you want or need to work it from scratch. The hard way which follows here, taken from

Timothy-sutton's answer will make your life so much easier, go there firstįor Windows 7 through 10, Apple have published a table of 'which download you need for which model' at. Yes, It is possible to download the Bootcamp drivers outside of the Bootcamp tool:

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