install windows on macmini

atamton wrote:

can I install windows on M1 mac mini?

Yes. Microsoft supports Windows 11 (Arm) booted as a guest of the Parallels hypervisor:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c

This is booting and running as a guest on macOS, and not Windows booted directly via Boot Camp.

You can't run the Intel version of Windows on an Apple Silicon Mac. Not dual-boot, not in a virtual machine. The Apple Silicon machines, running an ARM-based instruction set, require ARM-based machine code.

You can run the ARM version of Windows in a Parallels virtual machine.

https://www.parallels.com/

For a while, they had people running Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows, but I believe that Microsoft has now given Parallels their blessing as a solution for running Windows 11 for ARM in a virtual machine.

Windows 11 for ARM can run some off-the-shelf Wintel applications, using an emulator or translator that Microsoft supplies. As with Rosetta 2 and macOS/Intel software, there are some limitations.

According to a Parallels FAQ, "Windows is not included with your purchase of Parallels Desktop for Mac." So if you wanted to run Windows 11 for ARM in a VM, you'd need to buy a copy of Parallels and a copy of Windows.

I believe this has been discussed here before.

windows silicon mac site:discussions.apple.com