The reason I say that, is because they absolutely could have built this thing to be just a bit taller than the current mini, w/o adequate cooling. Parallels Desktop 17 (subscription) is compatible with Big Sur on M1 devices, but the guest operating system must be compiled for Apple Silicon ARM, as X8664 operating systems are not supported.

A window opens, prompting you to double-click on the VirtualBox.pkg installer file displayed in that window. Perform the following steps to install on a Mac OS X host: Double-click on the dmg file, to mount the contents. (And, apologies to everyone who had to put up with so many of us complaining for years or decades, but I'd like to think maybe we played some role in this finally coming to fruition. Oracle has not released a version of VirtualBox compatible with M1 devices. For Mac OS X hosts, Oracle VM VirtualBox ships in a dmg disk image file. But, aside from that, this is perfect (or better, given the form-factor). I do wish eGPUs would return, so I could add even more future GPU power (whereas an xMac could have done that). The big point of having enough computing power in a machine that can actually cool itself adequately, looks to be addressed (I assume it cools itself well enough to run full-out for long periods w/o degrading the hardware). I don't have any cards to put in it, and I wonder how many people really do anymore. Yeah, this pretty much ticks all the boxes for me, with the exception of expandability (which in my case is just entry-level cost-savings). VirtualBox is free, open-source, and works well for developers and hobbyists, but it's less ideal for anyone who wants to seamlessly run Windows and Linux apps on a Mac.

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