It should run on Mac but you’ll still need windows, you’ll need minimum 8GB of memory 16GB recommended. It should recognise your designs and any you’ve digitised as a .EMB. Check on the Wilcom website and if on Facebook check out John Deers Facebook pages there’s quite a good community and his YouTube channel lots of free videos. I use MBX 5.5 on a PC I used V5 as well. I needed 16GB to use 5.5 and Hatch 2 is similar in fact there isn’t much difference, no Corel draw in Hatch but does work with it as an external program. On a Mac you might need more memory for windows a parallels to work as well as hatch