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Apple Silicon Support in TT 2024
Last I heard, TurboTax does *not* natively support Apple Silicon Macs, the *only* kind they now sell. No, I don't want to download Rosetta. I remember seeing a System Requirements page that listed Intel Mac as a requirement, but don't see that here: https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/tta-system-requirements. Does anyone know if they've addressed the issue for new Macs?
A sure-fire way to see if they support the Apple Silicon architecture is to find the Turbotax app and executable, and in a Terminal window run the 'file' utility on it, looking to see if it supports the 'arm64' architecture. For instance, this command demonstrates that Quicken supports both 'arm64' and 'x86_64' (Intel 64 bit chips):
> file /Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64]
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecture arm64:( Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
I'm thinking if the Quicken folks can figure it out the TurboTax developers should be able to do it, but the System Requirements statement isn't explicit about that.