Storyline 2 & MacBook Air

I would suggest a MacBook Pro minimum for a vm running Windows 10 with Storyline 2.

Hi Leah,

I know most of our Support team runs on a MacBook pro with VMWare or Parallels but I don't know that many who are running on an MacBook Air likely based on those system specs. Will you be running and installing other programs on it? I could see that setup causing the issue with memory and processor speed if so - if you're exclusively running Storyline, it may work but also more of a toss up if it doesn't meet the minimums. 

Thanks for your input guys. Yeah - I kind of figured those specs would be too low. After talking to my local Mac dealer, they suggested bringing in my old MacBook Pro for diagnostics. It has better specs than the new Air and according to them, should still be quite speedy. Hopefully we can find a solvable problem and I won't need to buy something new after all. Thanks again!

How much RAM have you got?  ON an 8GB model it should be OK, I used to run SL1 on 4gB model.  However SL2 was slow on 4Gb

The model I was looking at for MacBook Air was 1.6 GHz with 8 GB RAM and a solid state 128 GB hard drive. I could also run in Bootcamp and not through VM Ware or Parallels I suppose. 

On my older model (2012) MB Pro I have a 2.5 GHz processor, 8 GB RAM and a standard hard drive. I was only thinking of replacing with the Air because it's so very, very slow. It's not working well at all. Now I'm hoping my local dealer can find something "fixable" so I don't need to buy a new computer at all. I haven't even tried Parallels on that MB Pro, just Bootcamp, since it's so slow I figured it couldn't handle it.

I'm just so used to working on my 27" iMac... 3.2 GHz quad core... it's a dream and does anything I want it to! Moving to the MB Pro when I need portability is just not workable right now because it's so slow. When I move something in Storyline it takes a second or two for it to respond on-screen... not to mention it takes about 3-5 minutes from boot to ready to use... in Mac OS... it's 10-15 minutes from boot to ready to use if I go into Windows using Bootcamp. Ugh. I was just tired of it. 

Fingers crossed I don't have to spend the money at all and they can "fix" my MB Pro. 

Thanks again for your input!!

If you can add more ram to your current MB Pro and upgrade to a solid state drive it will be much more responsive.

I'm thinking the solid state is where I'm going. I *think* the RAM is maxed out at 8 GB but we'll see what they say. 

IF you can run the VM of a SSD and have 8GB ram should be OK

You can check to see how much ram your computer can support at Other World Computing. Their pricing is very affordable as well. https://eshop.macsales.com/upgrades/macbook-pro

Leah, I run SL2 on a MBP with 16GB DDR3.  This is a 2014 (or maybe 15) model.  I use Parallels with a Windows 8 Professional partition.  I have very little trouble with this configuration.  In some respects, this works better than my work PC, which is a Lenovo laptop (not my choice).