Running Windows 11 on MacBook Pro M2 Max

How do you run Windows 11 on a MacBook Pro M2 Max?



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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Feb 3, 2025 8:26 PM

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Feb 4, 2025 1:58 AM in response to Douglas Bork

only way is to use a virtual machine


both parallels and vmware have options


here is ms statement on the subject

Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1® and M2™ chips - Microsoft Support


the reason is:


the new cpu from apple used the ARM cpu architecture where the version of windows microsoft sells rely on the

intel x86/x64 cpu architecture.

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