![]() Parallels provides instructions on how to load and run Windows 11 on Parallels 17 on an M1 Mac. Windows 10 will not install on Parallels 17, only Windows 11 will. That is when I received the error message that it would not download because it was not compatible with the operating system (Windows 11 I assume).įrom what little I have learned, in order to run Windows on an M1 Mac, I need to run Parallels 17 (which has been designed to run on the M1 chip). After that install, I went to my Norton account web page from a browser running in the virtual machine (Parallels 17 and Windows 11) and attempted to download the latest version of Norton from there. When I upgraded to my new Mac (M1), I found that I had to install Windows 11 with Parallels as I noted in a previous comment. (I guess when you're that big and spend that much, you get special favors.I don't remember what version of Norton I was running in Parallels on my previous Mac. I had a friend who worked at Boeing back then, and he told me it was such a problem for them, they got AutoDesk to give them a copy of the software that didn't look for a key. I know we used to have to maintain a license server to issue out license keys on demand for AutoCAD back then, and that thing was always causing problems. You have to do a registry edit after the install to correct this, as noted here:Īnd while it's been years since I last worked with their products before now? I remember working for a steel fabricator that used their products, a long while back, and having all sorts of similar headaches with their installers. intunewin file), you wind up with a package that installs for people but won't run afterwards! The worst part, though? Once you extract all of the compressed files from the installer into a folder (so you can get something usable, with a Setup.exe file at the root of it and a folder structure you can point to and properly package up into a. So even someone who goes to the effort to detail all the steps to get it configured for an automated push-install may be giving you info that doesn't work for the one you downloaded. ![]() They seem to have several different "bundles" of the same application, packaged up different ways. Packaging it to install through InTune and the "Company Portal" app in Windows was awful. I recently had to deploy the free DWG TrueView 2023 software so some of our folks in legal and real-estate could view some CAD drawings of properties they were getting in email. It seems like they rake in big money off of what's essentially very old/mature code with relatively minor additions and changes made each year? (I mean, there was a time when they wouldn't even do a native release of AutoCAD for Mac at all.)īut I really question AutoDesk's competency in general. I'm glad to hear they finally made native M1/M2 versions of these products. Even open source Maya competitor Blender beat Autodesk to the punch. ![]() But in contrast to many other makers of widespread professional software in similar industries, such as Adobe and Unity, Autodesk's efforts to support Apple Silicon - which were announced two years ago - have been ongoing for an interminably long time. Maya 2024 brings native Apple Silicon support in addition to a slew of new features, including the LookDevX material editor, Hydra support, and so on. A day later, on March 29, Autodesk revealed the 2024 update for Maya, its 3D modeling software chiefly used in game development, film production, and visual effects. Like other major AutoCAD updates, it adds new features like expanded automation tools and easier workflows, but the announcement that "for the first time, AutoCAD for Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 now run natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon architectures, including M1 and M2 chips in the M-series chips" is clearly the headlining feature.Īutodesk claims that Apple Silicon support "can increase overall performance by up to two times" compared to the 2023 version of AutoCAD. The availability of AutoCAD for Mac 2024 was announced in a blog post on Autodesk's website on March 28. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It has been two years and four months since the first Apple Silicon Mac hit the market, and now Autodesk has finally updated some of its massively popular professional applications (AutoCAD and Maya) to run natively on M1 and M2 chips.
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