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I have an old macbook, that I don't use for anything. It sits on a shelf. It occurred to me that I could maybe run Home Assistant on it? But when I look at the install guide, and see they point to installing it in a vm, and I google it to see if there are native installs, but they all say "run it in a VM"

I don't need a VM, and am not sure if the old macbook could really run virtualization, as it is kind of slow - but this old macbook is better than a raspberry pi, I think.

Shouldn't it be able to run it natively?

EDIT: The macbook is a Macbook Retina 12inch, Early 2015, and it seems quite slow, and doesn't get updates (running Mojave, 10.14)

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Yes you can. My suggestion is to use docker. Just install it on ur machine https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/mac-install/ and then use docker to deploy Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

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