Interesting. I was reading and I understood Microsoft wasn't officially supporting Parallels. I'd just like something more “permanent” if I could. Especially since, when I trade in my 2015 MBP for a new one, I'll be giving up Mojave (hence my lifetime Dreamweaver license); I can lose MS-Office (NeoOffice is fine) but Dreamweaver has no replacement and is #*$&(!^! expensive to rent. Also, I do have ancient, and I mean ancient, Windows software I still need.
Don't trade in. Keep. Best of both worlds.
OR, do trade in. Buy a cheap PC with only enough power to run whatever you need to run in Windows.
Perhaps consider one of those PC NUCs as a fat Windows "dongle."
I'm in the same boat as you. As a businessman who serves clients that sometimes need me to be able to run Windows-only stuff or have absolute compatibility with Windows software (even when there is a Mac version of something), I face the very same issues (even the Dreamweaver one). There's no single system option here.
The days of having ONE computer able to fully handle both worlds is fading fast (ARM Windows is NOT a solution that covers all such bases). So we're back to needing
TWO computers if we need something to run new MacOS
and Windows. And those people who have to do a fair amount of work that
requires Windows will potentially need to think about which kind of computer they really
need to buy next. Those who need Windows but have favored Macs because they could also run Windows may have to bail/defer on new Macs because need > want.
I wish there was a better option. Myself? I can do most of what I need to do with Macs. So I'll see if existing Macs can cover Windows needs for as long as possible. Then I'm probably going for a Windows machine, NUC or stick computer... not because I want to buy a Windows PC but because clients need me to run Windows natively sometimes and as old Macs conk, the only way is back to having both kinds of computers as TWO SEPARATE computers.
Or maybe Windows ARM picks up a LOT of steam in the next few years, wide adoption and then a Parallels option becomes workable and still in a single box.
Else, I'm starting to think about Mac Mini + Windows NUC/Stick + Screen as some kind of new mobile computer... not an all-in-one-case laptop. Mini & NUC are small and screens are thin. So maybe all that can fit into a laptop-like travel bag? Maybe that becomes the new mobile business person solution to cover
both worlds?
I hate the idea of it... but sadly see the tremendous benefit of BOTH major platforms in one case as slipping away more every day. Goodbye Bootcamp- one of the BEST features Apple ever offered for working Mac people.
