This document serves as a guide to answer questions generated by Apple's recent major update to MacOS 11, "Big Sur", and their recent transition to a new processor architecture, "Apple Silicon." Apple Silicon offers greater performance and more efficient battery life, but currently comes with a few drawbacks. See below.
At the time of writing, the only "major" piece of software generally used in ECE that is not compatible with Apple Silicon is Box Drive. A workaround is using the Box web interface at https://cmu.app.box.com/ |