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John Bailey

I tried Parallels on my MacBook Pro and the experience was not good. It was slow and Storyline was slow when I used it. Additionally, my workplace was having to pay for two pieces of software. I found it was more cost effective in the log run to buy a Windows machine to run Storyline. I don't like Windows OS, but I can tolerate it while I use Storyline. I think Articulate would have more designers use the product if they developed a native Mac OS version.

Lon Goldstein

Was your MacBook a current model with M1 or M2 ARM processor? When I tried
running it on my recent M1 Macbook it was very buggy and slow. I am now
running it on my old 2018 Macbook Pro (that was wiped and has a fresh
install of MacOS Ventura) and Storyline 360 actually runs quite smoothly on
Parallels (when Parallels is not having issues).

I'll be curious how long Articulate will be able to keep telling people
that Storyline can be run on Macs. In 5 more years, will they just tell
people to find a 7-year old Mac or older to run it on? To quote Wikipedia:
"The Intel-based MacBook Pro is a discontinued line of Macintosh notebook
computers sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2021".

Lon

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