I don't even have Rosetta installed, and want to avoid installing it. From here on out, we may simply refer to it as the 'ARM device'. It was written with an Apple M1 equipped MacBook Air so results may vary across devices. What are ARM based Macs? ARM Mac software These are apps designed for iPad that have been formatted to work on Macs with macOS system architecture and Intel chipsets. The problem is that QEMU isn’t optimized for M1 Macs, and virtualization is very slow… unless it uses MacOS’ Hypervisor. I live in Brasil, everything has a 97% tax on it after currency conversion, so the base MacMini starts at 8699,00 and goes to 11699,00.