
Once installed, open Virtual Box from the Applications folder. Open the dmg file and follow the install instructions. Take a screen shot using the key combo: command + shift + 3. To do this click on the apple icon in the top left and click "About this mac". Please send your mailing address, and a screen shot of your "About this mac" You will need to contact E-Education Software with your request for a copy of Windows and a activation key. To Obtain ArcGIS, you must contact our Program Assistant, Kary Islett at to request an Esri Authorization Code if you have not done so already. 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. When configuring Windows with any of these options, it is important the configuration meets the minimum system requirements for installing ArcGIS. The ESRI GeoNet Forum has more information on these options (search for "mac"). 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). Typical choices for the virtualization option are the licensed software Parallels or VMware. 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.
128GB is recommended for the best experience.
You will need enough free disk space to create a Boot Camp disk partition with a minimum size of 64GB. The following Mac models will support the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home or Pro edition installed with Boot Camp:
The typical method for this is to use the free software BootCamp. Option One: Create a dual-boot setup on your Mac, which allows you to boot into either Mac OS or Windows OS. There are severals ways to do this, but they require one of two installation options. To run ArcGIS 10.x on an Apple Macintosh computer, the Mac must be set up to run Windows.