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August 26, 2026
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hello everyone, James here, im trying to run an FC-7000MK2 is a legacy plotter and its driver or plugin software doesnt have native support for Apple Silicon or modem macOS on my M1 MacBook Air,, is parrallels desktop (windows) the best option?

  • August 26, 2026
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hello everyone, James here, im trying to run an FC-7000MK2 is a legacy plotter and its driver or plugin software doesnt have native support for Apple Silicon or modem macOS on my M1 MacBook Air,, is parrallels desktop (windows) the best option? if anyone can help me with this issue I would really appreciate it.

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    creative explorer
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    August 28, 2026

    @East Bay Designs In your situation, Parallels Desktop running Windows is probably the only workaround. The Windows version of the Graphtec driver still works, and Cutting Master 4 runs normally inside Illustrator for Windows. Your other option is to get an older Intel MacBook. Wanna buy my old MacBook Pro! Kidding, seriously, Parallels is probably the smarter move

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