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I want to use Access on my Mac Air M2. Do you recommend Bootcamp or Parallels for installing Windows, and which version of Windows is best? What permutation is best, and what cost is involved? Thank you.
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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.7
suppose you could look into parallels and get win11
though not sure if ms access is even supported in newer office suits these days
You need Windows 11 for support from Parallels and Microsoft. In Parallels, go to File -> New -> Get Windows 11 from Microsoft. You need a licensing key and, so far as I know, it has to be Windows Pro to enable full compatibility. Access is one of the main reasons I went to Parallels with a Mac Air M1. Back in 2021, there was a problem with it, but Microsoft quickly brought out an update, and it has worked very well ever since.
Apologies for not being clear. An Intel version of Windows 11 will not work, you have to have the ARM version that is only available from from "equipment manufacturers", in this case Parallels. There again, Microsoft say that licensing keys are cross-platform. This forum Parallels for Mac with M2 may be able to give advice.
a virtual machine is not an emulator so parallels would only work with arm cpu based version of windows and the only arm based windows versions ms released has been windows8 and 10 and 11 and 8 never to the public only to their surface tablets
and windows 10 only released as development versions, so "renting" parallels with win11 would be the only means to run windows on a m1/2/3 cpu
Bootcamp is only an option on Intel-based Macs. See: Get started with Boot Camp Assistant on Mac - Apple Support
Thank you. Do you recommend the newest version of Windows, or would an older version be just as efficient?
Which Windows version is ideal for Mac Air M2?
