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Hello, I currently own a 2020 MacBook Air (i5 1.1Ghz, 16gb Ram) and have both MacOS and Windows (VIA Bootcamp) and need to upgrade to a faster machine for work/school. I am interested in the MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Max, 32gb Ram) and am wondering if:
Thank you!
MacBook Air
alexschmidt02 wrote:
Can I run Windows using Parallels or an alternative method?
Not easily. You would need both virtualization and emulation to run Intel x86-64 operating system on an Apple silicon AArch64 processor; QEMU or UTM, etc. Not with support. Microsoft isn’t (presently?) selling any version of Windows for Apple silicon Macs, though some folks have gotten an unsupported-on-Mac AArch64 version going using the Windows Insiders distribution.
alexschmidt02 wrote:
Can I run Windows using Parallels or an alternative method?
Not easily. You would need both virtualization and emulation to run Intel x86-64 operating system on an Apple silicon AArch64 processor; QEMU or UTM, etc. Not with support. Microsoft isn’t (presently?) selling any version of Windows for Apple silicon Macs, though some folks have gotten an unsupported-on-Mac AArch64 version going using the Windows Insiders distribution.
alexschmidt02 wrote:
Can I run Windows using Parallels or an alternative method?
You can sign up for the Microsoft insider program and run Windows ARM using Parallels. I would not use a non production release of an operating system in anything but a test environment.
Boot Camp and Windows are not supported on and will not run on the M1 Macs.
Can I run Windows using Parallels or an alternative method?
Thank you, I will look into alternative methods to running my quick books on MacOS to eliminate the need for Windows.
Transfer Windows OS to new Mac
