Investigate if Q can work with new Macs with M1 chip/Apple Silicon
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Jamie Morris
SUMMARY: A user has a Mac with Parallels, but reports the following issue:
"_Only question I have is compatibility with the M1 chip when using parallels. We tried a few months back and Q wouldn’t work._"
User: Renata Freund, via email/Outlook
[~accountid:557058:5aaeed8c-d8c6-4ce5-b1ce-75ba3178a06b] 's opinion:
{quote}I feel that Displayr's a good fix for this problem and that making Q work is just doing work that stops people switching to Displayr (which we'd prefer).{quote}
This is really an issue for Parallels and VMware that produce these Windows emulation software, but Apple has made it clear they don’t want this to work and Parallels/VMware hide the fact you can’t run a lot of traditional Windows apps any more.
The work involved in an engineer just to investigate this would be ~1 week, and there will be cost involved in purchasing/renting a new Mac. The outcome would probably be recommended steps for a help article on how to jerry-rig it to work - or the conclusion that it won’t work without modifying Q.
Get a Mac with an M1 chip (aka Apple Silicon). Buy it or see if we can buy access to a remote Mac temporarily via remote desktop.
Get Parallels Desktop, install Windows for ARM (insider preview only, I think)
Run Q in it and see what breaks.
Also try:
## Install Windows 11 (x64 edition) on the UTM emulator
## Run Q on it and confirm it works
## Update Q's System Requirements page if it works and post an update in #how-does-q-work so USE team members know there is an option for these customers now. [https://wiki.q-researchsoftware.com/wiki/System_Requirements|https://wiki.q-researchsoftware.com/wiki/System_Requirements|smart-link]
Related slack thread:
User Name: Renata Freund
Company: Honeycomb Strategy
Zendesk ticket: N/A - via Outlook
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Jamie Morris
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Won't do