Hi Vânia,

Currently, I am running 7.1.1 (the most recent release) on Big Sur without issue. I’m not sure we can speak to the stability when running it on the new Arm chips given they were just released though if you had issues a virtual machine can serve as an alternative.

Cheers,

Ryan Cali, B.Sc.

Research Technician II
Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery

Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness (NICC)

Massachusetts General Hospital / Neurology
RCALI@MGH.HARVARD.EDU

978-860-6496

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Date: Friday, December 4, 2020 at 3:41 AM
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Subject: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer on new Mac (apple silicon-chip)

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Hi,

I am about to buy a new laptop and I am wondering if freesurfer will be running on the new mac? I mean, Mac OS big sur (with apple silicon chip, where they no longer use an intel processor).

Many thanks for your advice.

Best,

Vânia de Aguiar, PhD
Assistant Professor in Neurolinguistics
University of Groningen
Faculty of Arts

Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
Room 1315.0408
9712 EK, Groningen
The Netherlands