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Migrating from old iMac to Mac Mini M2 Pro. Used Parallels with Windows 11 Home. Do I need to upgrade to Windows Pro to make this work?

Migrating from old iMac to Mac Mini M2 Pro. Used Parallels with Windows 11 Home on old iMac. Do I need to upgrade to Windows Pro to make this work?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

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to run windows 11 in parallels you can't use the intel x86 windows version you need to use the arm cpu based one

read more here

Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1®, M2™, and M3™ chips - Microsoft Support

and Parallels Desktop for Mac: The Solution for Running Windows 11 on Apple M-series Macs

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Mar 10, 2024 1:34 AM in response to RBKapple

to run windows 11 in parallels you can't use the intel x86 windows version you need to use the arm cpu based one

read more here

Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1®, M2™, and M3™ chips - Microsoft Support

and Parallels Desktop for Mac: The Solution for Running Windows 11 on Apple M-series Macs

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