i can not install window on my macbook air

KiltedTim wrote:

If, as your post seems to indicate, you have an M2 based MacBook Air, BootCamp is not supported at all.

The only version of Windows you could possibly run would be the beta version of Windows for Arm using virtualization software.

It might be the official version of Windows 11 for ARM, by now.

When Parallels first came out with a version of their VM program for the Mac, people were rdownloading and running WIndows Insider Preview (beta) builds. Microsoft had not made any commitment to releasing retail versions of Windows for Apple Silicon Macs (either for hypothetical Boot Camp use or for use in VMs).

A while back, Microsoft gave their official blessing to running WIndows 11 for ARM in Parallels VMs.

https://kb.parallels.com/114051

"Note: Parallels® Desktop is an authorized solution for running Arm® versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M-series computers.

You will need to acquire a separate license for Windows 11 Pro if you do not already have one."

Servant of Cats wrote:

KiltedTim wrote:

If, as your post seems to indicate, you have an M2 based MacBook Air, BootCamp is not supported at all.

The only version of Windows you could possibly run would be the beta version of Windows for Arm using virtualization software.

It might be the official version of Windows 11 for ARM, by now.

It’s not, because there isn’t one.

Please refer to Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant.

"Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor."

Microsoft Support – Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1® and M2™ chips

Looks like they are encouraging some of their corporate customers to rent virtual Wintel PCs in the Microsoft cloud!

I see that thee is a CorelDraw graphics suite for the Mac, but it costs $549 as a one-time purchase … and they are pushing a subscription (rental) plan that costs $239 per year.

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/product/coreldraw/

If the requirement is not specifically for CorelDraw, there is the Affinity suite. Affinity Designer is on sale for $53 – or you can get Affinity (Photo + Designer + Publisher) for all platforms (Mac, Windows, iPad) for $124. That $124 package seems like a very good deal to me. (And I'm pretty sure that if you're using Apple's Photos as your photo organizer, you can use Affinity Photo as an external editor … for times when you need editing tools more advanced than the ones Photos has built in.)

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

For bitmap photo editing, there is GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program). That one's free as in speech and free as in beer.

https://www.gimp.org/

If, as your post seems to indicate, you have an M2 based MacBook Air, BootCamp is not supported at all.

The only version of Windows you could possibly run would be the beta version of Windows for Arm using virtualization software.

Note: If you install Parallels Desktop and Windows 11 for ARM on an Apple Silicon Mac, you will have the overhead of running one OS inside another. If you run Wintel applications (using Microsoft's Intel emulation code), you will incur whatever emulation or translation overhead is associated with that.

Probably a situation in which you would want more than 8 GB of RAM.