MAC Parallel

No, not as far as I know… virtual machine software such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Crossover are about the only way now to run Windows software on a Mac of any kind, and to do so decently and with good-ish performance… there used to be something called “BootCamp” but it only worked on Intel Macs, period, so with M1/M2 Mac’s ( Apple Silicon) those are your choices, and you’ll need to have a legitimate copy of Windows 7,8,9,10 on a DVD plus the virtual machine software… and enough ram installed… you can google those names and see what you get… eg “parallels for mac”, etc…

John B

Johnb-one wrote:

No, not as far as I know… virtual machine software such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Crossover are about the only way now to run Windows software on a Mac of any kind, and to do so decently and with good-ish performance… there used to be something called “BootCamp” but it only worked on Intel Macs, period, so with M1/M2 Mac’s ( Apple Silicon) those are your choices, and you’ll need to have a legitimate copy of Windows 7,8,9,10 on a DVD plus the virtual machine software… and enough ram installed… you can google those names and see what you get… eg “parallels for mac”, etc…

With Parallels running on an Apple Silicon Mac, you will need Windows 11 for ARM.

Virtual machines run the same type of machine code as the host system, so a Parallels VM on an Apple Silicon Mac cannot run Windows 7, 8, 9, or 10. (There was once a Windows Insider build of Windows 10 for ARM – but that was an alpha/beta test version that would be retired now that Windows 11 is out.)