Users can still purchase MacBooks that contain the latest Intel processors. The impact for users of ArcGIS Pro, is that there are currently no Windows virtual machine (VM) platforms that support this new processor (this is not the case for virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI platforms, which have been released and support M1).īelow is a list of the current recommendations and options that are available to users that need to run ArcGIS Pro on a Mac. If you want to dive into it, y ou can read about the details here ( ).
In November of 2020, Apple released a new processor for their computers called the M1. Parallels Desktop 17 was just recently released, which has been 'rebuilt and optimized to natively run on Apple M1 and Intel based Mac devices'
