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Date/Time: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:38:42 +0000
Mac mini M chip environment
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| [2025-10-31 13:02:54] |
| Jimmyy - Posts: 290 |
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Hi, Can sierra chart run on Mac mini m4 chip with the same performance as a windows computer? Thank you |
| [2025-10-31 13:55:23] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 21331 |
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We have no idea about performance, but Sierra Chart can run on an ARM processor with the ARM version of Sierra Chart which is included with all Sierra Chart installations.
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| [2025-10-31 14:01:56] |
| Jimmyy - Posts: 290 |
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Does the running the arm version on a mac m chip considered as running natively? Or natively is just considered as running on windows computer? |
| [2025-10-31 14:31:14] |
| DFromeaux - Posts: 22 |
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Hi, The ARM version of Sierra Chart runs on Windows ARM. Therefore, you still need to use a tool like Parallels (which I recommend). Once configured, Parallels uses about 50% of your Mac’s resources, so plan for twice what you think you’ll need. If you want 32 GB of RAM available for Sierra Chart, get a Mac with 64 GB. The same logic applies to the processor, storage space, and so on. I’m running Sierra Chart on a MacBook Air M4 with 32 GB of RAM, which means only 16 GB are allocated to Sierra Chart through Parallels — and it works perfectly fine as long as I don’t have 20 charts open at once. The only downside with Macs — and I hope they’ll fix this in future versions (one can dream) — is that the read/write speed of the SSD they use is relatively slow. As a result, you’ll need to be patient when loading charts with a lot of historical data. Have a great day. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-10-31 14:32:10
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