M2 MacBook Air and Parallels

[7422736m]

Hi all!
Do any of you, M2 MacBook Air uses Parallels desktop?
I neeed to use it as I sometime have some projects I have to do on SDL Trados, and I am curious how well the M2 MacBook Air deals with this scenario.
Hope I can get some feedback from you.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Just like any VM, the more resources you feed it the better it will behave. A base model MBA will do ok for light work but your VM will have half of your resources so results may vary. Personally I wouldn’t run a VM with anything less than 8gb allotted meaning you’ll need a 16gb MBA at least.

 

[7422736m]

Just like any VM, the more resources you feed it the better it will behave. A base model MBA will do ok for light work but your VM will have half of your resources so results may vary. Personally I wouldn’t run a VM with anything less than 8gb allotted meaning you’ll need a 16gb MBA at least.

I second your opinion.
Yet, I was hoping someone owning the M2 MBA could chime in with some real usage feedback, aside from pure performance, like temps, for instance.

 

[KPOM]

I second your opinion.
Yet, I was hoping someone owning the M2 MBA could chime in with some real usage feedback, aside from pure performance, like temps, for instance.

I’ve been running Quicken for Windows in a Windows 11 ARM VM. Nothing too stressful on the system, but I do give it 6GB out of the 16GB total RAM. Overall it runs well, and I don’t notice the MacBook Air getting warm or throttling.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

I second your opinion.
Yet, I was hoping someone owning the M2 MBA could chime in with some real usage feedback, aside from pure performance, like temps, for instance.

Even temps can vary though. Ambient room temp, location of computer, background processes, etc

 

[alphahuskie]

I was having a hard time deciding between the 8GB and 16GB RAM given that I’m on Windows VM half the time, dealing with multiple Excel models. Have been trying the 8GB RAM for more than a week. Happy to say that the RAM swap is very effective and although I get up to 8GB swap, everything runs pretty snappy.

On a 34” ultra wide monitor too.