Is the Macbook Air M2 chip compatible with this application? (NVivo)

BobTheFisherman wrote:

I am not going to the NVivo website. Based on the system requirements you posted above, it is not compatible. If your posted system requirements are not correct then the app may be compatible. Are your posted system requirements incorrect?

The posted system requirements don't prove that the software is incompatible with M1/M2-based Macs, but there are clues that it might be.

El Capitan is really old, and precedes the 64-bit-only transition by four major macOS versions. Those system requirements don't contain any mention of Apple Silicon – whether with regards to native support, or even to running Intel-only binaries under Rosetta 2 translation.

I'd guess that it's not a M1 versus M2 thing, but that there's something about installing a newer version of the application (not this old El Capitan version) that the OP is missing. Sounds like a question for the application vendor's technical support.

"Does it ARM?" (a third-party site that keeps tabs on which applications support Apple Silicon) suggests that there is a version that works on Apple Silicon – "via Rosetta 2 with compatibility patch".

https://doesitarm.com/

https://doesitarm.com/app/nvivo

SelMRQ wrote:

On the NVivo website... it says its compatible with the M1 chip. How different is the M2 chip from the M1 chip?

NVivo is a really important software for me to use... and it's too bad I have to downgrade my macbook to the M1 chip just so I can use NVivo.

I am not going to the NVivo website. Based on the system requirements you posted above, it is not compatible. If your posted system requirements are not correct then the app may be compatible. Are your posted system requirements incorrect?

You have that backwards.

You need to ask the app developer if it will run on an m series Mac with Rosetta.

SelMRQ wrote:

• I have the macbook air with M2 chip. I am trying to download NVivo 12, but every time I open the app, it says that I need to give NVivo permission to access all my files - which I did. I gave it full access already and then restarted my computer. Even when I do this, it still shows the same message.

This is the system requirements for the application. Is M2 compatible?

Minimum system requirements

Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor

• Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

• 4GB of RAM

• 1280 x 800 screen resolution

• 3GB of available disk space

• Recommended system requirements

Mac computer with an Intel Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor

• Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or later

• 8GB of RAM

• 1440 x 900 screen resolution

• 4GB SSD of available disk space—or more depending on data storage needs

• Internet connection

• Google Chrome (required for NCapture—a browser extension that allows you to gather material from the web)

No.

levinson13 wrote:

I have the same problem with Nvivo12 but with an M1 processor and with the recent version of Mac OS, Sonoma. Do I have to reinstall El Capitan to access again to this software?

You can't install El Capitan on a M-series Mac.

Apple only distributed it for Intel processors. Machine code for Intel processors can't run on the "bare metal" of an Apple Silicon Mac, or vice versa. You couldn't even run it in a virtual machine, for the same reason.

Hi,

At least NVivo release company said it's compatible with M1 Apple silicon, not M2.

The system requirements posted are from NVivo. So the M2 is not compatible? I have the same problem. Will there be a solution?

I have the same problem with Nvivo12 but with an M1 processor and with the recent version of Mac OS, Sonoma. Do I have to reinstall El Capitan to access again to this software?