Will the data acquisition toolbox work on windows installed on a mac?

I'm looking to use the data acquisition toolbox on my mac. If I install windows on my mac using bootcamp, will I be able to use the data acquisition toolbox to acquire data from an NI USB daq or is the restriction related to hardware rather than the OS itself?

Thanks,

Andrew

Answer 1

[Fiona La]

Running Windows through Apple Boot Camp is not an officially supported configuration. This means that complete testing and qualification has not been done for the Data Acquisition Toolbox on this configuration.

However, since the Data Acquisition Toolbox interfaces with the NI-DAQmx vendor drivers and libraries, if you can get a working NI-DAQmx configuration working on your installation, then it's possible you can use DAT.

You may also find this National Instruments article about using NI-DAQmx with Apple and Mac OS X useful:

• https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000P72ySAC&l=en-US

[Andrew]

Thanks for your help Fiona, I'll try the dual boot option.