Need some help setting up ISTA on a MacBook Pro with Parallels

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Originally Posted by Peezen

Ah snap, I figured this would be the prevailing logic. I have Parallels anyways to run some windows programs I want, but yeah that makes sense.

I do have access to a laptop that meets the basic requirements, but it doesn’t have an SSD, or much room, but perhaps it will be fine for just ISTA D for e-series.

Looks 40 gigs on an empty windows 10 laptop with an i5 processor.

So just the DCan interface and Rheingold install should do the trick?

Thank you for the feedback

Yeah. I would highly recommend spending a few bucks on a cheap SSD. You ought to be able to pick up a 250-500gb SSD for under $50. They key is that on accessing little files, an SSD can literally be 10,000 times faster than a spinning disk, so it'll fee like a new machine.

Macrium Reflect is available for free and will let you clone your existing windows install to the new drive. Super easy, if you don't want to just wipe it and do a clean install. (I ended up cloning an ISTA install across three different laptops this way.)

For the record, to answer your original question, a USB-C to A adapter / dongle is what you actually need to connect the cable to your Mac laptop. But I've personally gone down that route and it sucked. Yeah, it worked. But it was annoying. Also, you really don't want your daily laptop in the garage.