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Of course, Macs don't come with serial ports (I don't think they ever have). This works with a Mac, plus it works with Parallels Virtualization software running a Windows environment. The only issue I've found is that there is no way to change which COM port it is reporting as under Parallels. In my case, it shows up as COM3.