jsmith2 Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hello, I'm a geography student in Northern Ontario, Canada. I just found out I have access to some version of ArcGIS available through the school library on a student licence. It's on a disc. Is there a way of getting it on my Macbook given that it doesn't have a disc drive? On top of that, I'm guessing it's probably not compatible with Apple products. Would parallels enable ArcGIS to run? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 If you have access to the file whether on disc or harddrive you could just copy it to flashdisk and install it yup ArcGIS doesnt support Mac, you can install windows on your mac via bootcamp or other alternative. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dbu Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 I'm user of Mac 5 year ago and my all experience of this is that better way for use ArcGIS is just make a clear installation of Windows using Parallel is the better way.... just have to be sure that you have more than 4 GB of RAM.... regards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart1974 Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Hi, From my experience parallel desktop is the best option. Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cwiklolo Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 @3dbu @stuart1974 I'm starting out in a beginner GIS class and I want to use the free boot camp option for using windows on my mac. Do you think having 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 + 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3 of processing power and memory is ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriendemonav Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 if you bootcamp it then its more than enough IMO if you plan to virutalize it in mac for example parallels then that is not enough. why dont you upgrade the ram to 8 gig. ram is cheap nowadays anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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