ArcGIS on Mac OS X
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From Christian Spanring: Rather than “go out and play minigolf,” Spanring set up a MacBook to run ArcGIS. I confess I’m a little disappointed I haven’t heard more excitement about this possibility in particular (within the greater cloud of excitement about Windows running on Apple machines), but nonetheless I am personally thrilled to hear this will work. Later this year I hope to receive delivery of my own MacBook Pro and you can be damned sure ArcGIS is going to be one of the first things I try (everything else I know works). I’ve spoken with another ArcGIS user via a listserv and we’re both very hungry for this type of news. I love the ethos of GRASS and I appreciate its power very much, but it just isn’t a fluid experience for people who are new to GIS. It’s a hard sell, to be sure. And using ArcGIS with the benefit of Exposé and the rest of the OS X UI? Swell.
ArcGIS Preview 10.2.3 for Mac is free to download from our software library. The most popular version among the program users is 10.2. This free software for Mac OS X is a product of ArcGIS. The application relates to Design & Photo Tools. The latest version of the program can be downloaded for Mac OS X 10.8 or later. Installing ArcGIS on a Mac ArcGIS will not run natively on the Macintosh Operating System but can be made to run on an Intel-based Mac with Windows installed as a separate operating system. There are two primary methods for running Windows and ArcGIS on a Mac: 1. Machine virtualization using either Parallels or VMware Fusion. Virtual machines.
To run ArcGIS 10.x on an Apple Macintosh computer, the Mac must be set up to run Windows. There are severals ways to do this, but they require one of two installation options.
Option One: Create a dual-boot setup on your Mac, which allows you to boot into either Mac OS or Windows OS. The typical method for this is to use the free software BootCamp.
The following Mac models will support the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home or Pro edition installed with Boot Camp:
- MacBook Pro (2012 and later)
- MacBook Air (2012 and later)
- MacBook (2015 and later)
- iMac Pro (2017)
- iMac (2012 and later)*
- Mac mini (2012 and later)
- Mac mini Server (Late 2012)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013)
You will need enough free disk space to create a Boot Camp disk partition with a minimum size of 64GB. 128GB is recommended for the best experience.
Using BootCamp: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Option Two: Create a virtual machine on your Mac, which allows you to run an installation of Windows OS in parallel with your existing Mac OS, and to switch from one to the other without booting into either one separately. Typical choices for the virtualization option are the licensed software Parallels or VMware. This option requires more resources (RAM & CPU) to run both OSes at the same time, as well as plenty of hard drive space (see the virtual machine options below for details).
Using Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
Using VMware: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
The ESRI GeoNet Forum has more information on these options (search for 'mac'). When configuring Windows with any of these options, it is important the configuration meets the minimum system requirements for installing ArcGIS.
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Arcgis For Mac Os X 10.13
Keep in mind that ESRI does NOT support ArcGIS for Mac, and that you can only use ArcGIS within one of the Windows OS installation options described above.