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Note that Apple Silicon (“M1”) Macs can only run macOS Big Sur, so any application that is unsupported on Big Sur is also unsupported on Apple Silicon. See that list in addition to these specific caveats.

  •  M1 DEP builds work
  •  Izzy stack (munki, Managed Software Center, izzy-client) all work
  •  VPN is supported and works
  •  CrashPlan is supported and works
  •  Anti-Malware is supported and works
  •  Major application suites work:
    •  Office
    •  Adobe Acrobat
    •  Adobe Creative Cloud suite (hand-installed only at this time)
    •  Box Drive (Box is being phased out and we encourage you to move to Dropbox)
    •  Google Drive: Google is targeting April, 2021

Applications

Adobe titles - including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat - are not able to be distributed through Managed Software Center due to bugs in Adobe’s installers. As a workaround, we deploy the Creative Cloud desktop app; users can then use it to install the Creative Cloud apps they use.

We expect that most JVM-based apps will have similarly bad performance. That includes MATLAB and SPSS.Dante Controller – does not launch on the M1 (does on the Intel) – fix expected “later in 2021”

Rhinoceros 7 – the vendor's site indicates that the M1 is not supported and will not be until Rhino 8

Homebrew (brew install) has released an M1-compatible version that installs in /opt/homebrew instead. You can have both the x86-emulated and M1-native versions installed at the same time with some PATH tricks.

Box Drive and Google Drive File Stream do does not work at all. Google Drive (v47 or later)and Dropbox (v109.4.517 or later) seems to work.

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