I currently have a 2019 16" MBP. Teams and Zoom calls cause the fans to spin up like crazy. I'm a bit surprised because I have 64GB of RAM and the 5600M so I have plenty of memory.
I need to practice Microsoft PowerBI but I know from prior experience, running VMs always stresses my Mac. So, I'm thinking about upgrading to the 16" M1 Pro iff the fan noise is noticeably quieter and the heat is significantly less when running these tasks. For those of you that run Windows via a VM and use BI tools, how well does the computer work? How much fan noise / heat does it make compared to my machine or a Lenovo X1 Extreme / P1?
If there's little difference I may just buy a Windows machine for using Microsoft tools since I need to learn them for a job.
Thanks
I need to practice Microsoft PowerBI but I know from prior experience, running VMs always stresses my Mac. So, I'm thinking about upgrading to the 16" M1 Pro iff the fan noise is noticeably quieter and the heat is significantly less when running these tasks. For those of you that run Windows via a VM and use BI tools, how well does the computer work? How much fan noise / heat does it make compared to my machine or a Lenovo X1 Extreme / P1?
If there's little difference I may just buy a Windows machine for using Microsoft tools since I need to learn them for a job.
Thanks
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