Can I use Microsoft Windows on my Mac so that I can review discovery?

By Brian Brunelle

You will have to pry my Mac out of my cold, dead, hands.

TLDR[1]: Buy a PC[2]

There comes a time when a Mac user will need to run software that will only run on Microsoft Windows. Specifically, when you are a criminal defense lawyer or on a legal team that just received discovery containing programs that only run using Microsoft Windows. There is no substitute for running the program natively (on a computer that runs Microsoft Windows) both from performance and ease of use.

Modern Apple computers can run Microsoft Windows in one of two ways. Natively or virtually. Intel-based Macs contain the same Intel processors found in computers running Microsoft Windows. These Macs can natively run Microsoft Windows using a feature called Bootcamp or through virtualization. Newer Macs using processors made by Apple can only use virtualization.[3]

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