In some cases, the speakers are physically damaged in the process, and Apple stores don’t seem to be equipped to do this kind of repair on-site just yet. This resulted in both speakers being blown.” Multiple MBP owners on Reddit and other Mac sites have confirmed they are having problems as well, with severe sound distortion above ~50% volume. The initial report came courtesy of Mac user Tommy9695 who writes: “Just a heads up, there’s a known speaker issue with the new Mbp in Bootcamp… Most people are hearing random loud “pops” in windows, which happened to me even when the speakers were muted. Multiple customers who purchased one of Apple’s new MacBook Pros are reporting that the default Boot Camp audio driver can permanently damage the system’s speakers. Apple tends to aggressively prune support for older operating systems - Boot Camp 6.1, which shipped with macOS 10.12 (Sierra), only supports Windows 10 - but Cupertino’s QA team clearly screwed up its compatibility testing, even with just one operating system to evaluate. If you need Windows on a Macintosh and don’t want to use virtualization software to run it, Boot Camp will resize your hard drive partition to create a new Windows volume and ships with its own set of drivers for your underlying hardware. For the past 11 years, Apple has offered formal support for installing Windows on a Macintosh running OS X via its Boot Camp Assistant software.