I have an 2017 5K iMac at work. One of the apps I use is Win 10 with Parallels.
Hopefully (I cross my fingers), I'll be able to also get a laptop and sometimes work remotely. I also hope this could be an ARM laptop. If not, I'll update my partners 2013 MBA with an ARM Mac and just use that for work.
Anyway, that Win 10 is necessary (with a windows app that only run on x86 windows). The app also requires an expensive license, and I doubt I can have 2 licenses. So even if Parallels somehow adds x86 virtualization, I can't use that solution. I was thinking I could screen share to my iMac (built-in app, VNC, Screens, TeamViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop, etc etc). But I'd really prefer if the display didn't wake up so that my colleagues see what I'm doing (open office space). But is this somehow possible? I'm trying to google but mostly find old sites like this one https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...ing-vnc-to-an-imac-without-waking-the-display. I'm sure a lot has changed in the last years and I don't really know what's possible on Catalina or Big Sur.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
If I can't disable the waking of the display, can I just have the iMac show the login screen instead of what I'm doing on the screen? Or can I somehow dim the display even lower than the lowest setting so that it's "almost black"?
Hopefully (I cross my fingers), I'll be able to also get a laptop and sometimes work remotely. I also hope this could be an ARM laptop. If not, I'll update my partners 2013 MBA with an ARM Mac and just use that for work.
Anyway, that Win 10 is necessary (with a windows app that only run on x86 windows). The app also requires an expensive license, and I doubt I can have 2 licenses. So even if Parallels somehow adds x86 virtualization, I can't use that solution. I was thinking I could screen share to my iMac (built-in app, VNC, Screens, TeamViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop, etc etc). But I'd really prefer if the display didn't wake up so that my colleagues see what I'm doing (open office space). But is this somehow possible? I'm trying to google but mostly find old sites like this one https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...ing-vnc-to-an-imac-without-waking-the-display. I'm sure a lot has changed in the last years and I don't really know what's possible on Catalina or Big Sur.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
If I can't disable the waking of the display, can I just have the iMac show the login screen instead of what I'm doing on the screen? Or can I somehow dim the display even lower than the lowest setting so that it's "almost black"?
