Mapinfo On Mac

[Collin Landis]

My company is wanting to upgrade my work system and they've given me a green light for just about anything within reason. I know there are those of you out there running Mapinfo through virtual machines on MacOS, and I wanted to hear from you what your experience has been like. Does Mapinfo run stable enough to make it a viable course of action?

[Paul Chiappini]

I've used mapinfo daily in Parallels on Mac for years without problems.  My only concern for you would be the latest Apple hardware using non-Intel processors. 

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:54 AM Collin Landis <clandis...@gmail.com> wrote:

My company is wanting to upgrade my work system and they've given me a green light for just about anything within reason. I know there are those of you out there running Mapinfo through virtual machines on MacOS, and I wanted to hear from you what your experience has been like. Does Mapinfo run stable enough to make it a viable course of action?

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[Collin Landis]

Yes as I've been doing my reading it seems with the M1 processors, neither VMware or Parallels is currently able to run Windows, so I'd have to buy a previous gen Intel-based one. Have you had any issues with any Mapbasic programs or additional plugins struggling with filepaths in your Parallels environment?

[Paul Chiappini]

No problems with MapBasic programs.  Limited experience with plugins but I don't recall any issues.  File paths haven't been an issue -- I only access files in the Windows environment or NAS -- haven't tried accessing files on the MacOS side.  Yesterday Parallels 17 was announced.  It may solve the M1 problem, but Parallels hasn't published enough info yet.