Matthew Rogers

Download FIS and PDSAT on a mac

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Good morning all,

Would anyone happen to know if the ESFA has any plans to make FIS and PDSAT available to download on an Apple Mac? 

Thanks,

Matt

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Steve Hewitt

I'll give a tenner to a charity of your choice when they do (although what a tenner will be worth by the middle of the century...)

I'd be googling "how to emulate windows on a mac" and/or "cheap windows laptops"...

Henry Wish (DfE)

Hi Matthew Rogers,

I'm just going through old posts to see if there's anything I can add, if not for the original poster but future viewers.

There have never been any plans to create MacOS versions for our software (LET, FIS etc.) and I don't believe there ever will be if I'm honest. That said, you can get them running on a Mac machine via:

 Bootcamp - This requires partitioning your Mac SSD/HDD which creates a new operating system you can select on start-up/boot. I think this now works for their new M chips too, not just intel based models.

Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant – Apple Support (UK)

Parallels -  This runs windows within window within MacOS, so you effectively have two machines running at once! If I remember correctly, this method is process heavy as it's twice the OS workload without any applications running on top.

Run Windows on Mac - Parallels Desktop 18 Virtual Machine for Mac

The third option would be to purchase a windows machine. If its sole purpose was for running our software, there's plenty of cheap second hand laptops on ebay you could purchase, wipe clean (internal and external) and use. 

*edit -  you can also validate your ILR via SLD which is platform agnostic, a bit less capable. 

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Cheers,

 Henry W

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Matthew Rogers

Hi Henry. Thank you for your post. Now that PDSAT can be accessed online, there isn't a requirement for a MAC download.

Thanks,

Matt