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Has anyone moved from PC to MAC and is suvvesfully using the older BIAB program or Master Class series on the MAC. I run Sonoma. Any leads are apprechiated
Harry Sontheimer
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You would need to run Windows on your Mac to do that, either using Boot Camp or in a virtual PC app like Parallels or VirtualBox. Keep in mind that all of those options also require you to purchase a version of Windows, so it may be less expensive to purchase a crossgrade to the Mac version of BIAB and/or keep around an extra Windows computer.
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On Intel Mac you may run BB with some limitations, using Wine, Crossover or VirtualBox, or install Windows to a separate partition using BootCamp or WinClone. On ARM M1/2 Mac all these don’t work, buy BB for Mac
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On Intel Mac you may run BB with some limitations, using Wine, Crossover or VirtualBox, or install Windows to a separate partition using BootCamp or WinClone. On ARM M1/2 Mac all these don’t work, buy BB for Mac I would not suggest using Wine or Crossover for BB, however the Master Class apps may work - we have not tested this though, nor are we likely to. This would be completely unsupported. On ARM Macs it is possible to run Windows using Parallels, however this requires an ARM version of Windows which can be difficult to obtain. At that point Windows would then have to emulate x86 so there would be multiple layers of emulation and virtualization - this can lead to problems, or at least slow performance. It would also consume at least 20gb of storage just for Windows. We do not recommend doing this, nor can we support it, however it remains a possibility for the brave.
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[quote=Rodion Shynharov]
On ARM Macs it is possible to run Windows using Parallels, however this requires an ARM version of Windows which can be difficult to obtain. At that point Windows would then have to emulate x86 so there would be multiple layers of emulation and virtualization - this can lead to problems, or at least slow performance. It would also consume at least 20gb of storage just for Windows. We do not recommend doing this, nor can we support it, however it remains a possibility for the brave. ARM Windows is here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11arm64its official MS Site but I´m not sure that BIAB compiled for x86/64 will work with ARM windows
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Ah thanks! Last time I was looking into this it required building my own ISO to install from, glad it's a simple download now. but I´m not sure that BIAB compiled for x86/64 will work with ARM windows It does - there's an x86 emulator built into Windows for ARM that works fairly well. I've used this to run BIAB as well, and while the performance was not great it was certainly acceptable - I was also using a very slow ARM computer so it likely would be perfectly fine in Parallels on an M1 or better.
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