How is this even usable with 8GB RAM?
Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
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Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#222MacBook Neo is going to sell like crazy. In the education market, educators, students, aides... nothing close at this price point. With memory and SSD prices so high I don't see how Dell, Asus and others are going to be able to compete. Unless the build quality is significantly worse than a M1 macbook air not sure budget PC makers will be able to compete.
I don't know. Both of my macs are over 7 years old, and have at least 32GB of RAM. Certainly would not buy an 8GB one now.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you elaborate what you mean by saying Linux on an M-series chip isn't straightforward? That's not been my experience, I (and lots of other devs) use it every day, Apple supports Linux via [0], and provides the ability to use Rosetta 2 within VMs to run legacy x86 binaries? 0: https://github.com/apple/container
Clearly I'm not as knowledgable about this as I thought I was. I already have a Ubuntu x86 VM running on an Intel Mac (inside VirtualBox). Same with Windows 11. Can this tool allow me to run both VMs in an Apple Silicon device in a performant way? Last I checked VirtualBox on Apple Silicon only permits the running of ARM64 guests. While I have a preference for VirtualBox I'd say I'm hypervisor agnostic. Really any wa…
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
This is a super easy way to run linux VMs on Apple Silicon. It can also act as a backend for docker.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#224MacBook Neo is going to sell like crazy. In the education market, educators, students, aides... nothing close at this price point. With memory and SSD prices so high I don't see how Dell, Asus and others are going to be able to compete. Unless the build quality is significantly worse than a M1 macbook air not sure budget PC makers will be able to compete.
I don't know. Both of my macs are over 7 years old, and have at least 32GB of RAM. Certainly would not buy an 8GB one now.
Going to guess you aren’t a student
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
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The RAM being soldered is a hit against repair ability, you can't expand it or if the ram has issues you can't replace it, you will just be forced to throw out the entire machine. What else is modular here anyways? Can I swap out the CPU, the screen, the keyboard, ports...anything?
Soldering RAM isn't for compact size or cost or to keep you from upgrading, it's for speed. Soldered RAM can be physically closer with a faster bus than removable RAM.
With old style DIMMs I can understand this excuse, with LPCAMM though, it doesn't fly.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
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UTM seems to make VMs available on iOS (with App Store limitations) although I've only used it on Mac: https://docs.getutm.app/
I thought it was emulating everything like QEMU, not using virtualization hardware like you normally would on a computer.
You might be right. QEMU doesn't always make clear when you're running emulated or virtualized.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#227How is this even usable with 8GB RAM?
macOS is significantly better built than Windows.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#228Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like any other Apple Silicon Mac, you can't currently boot into Linux but Apple has native container support that Linux works on [1]. [1]: https://github.com/apple/container
I'm writing this from Linux running natively (not virtualized) on an Apple Silicon mac (M1 Pro)
My fault; I'd lost track how far Asahi progressed.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#230MacBook Neo is going to sell like crazy. In the education market, educators, students, aides... nothing close at this price point. With memory and SSD prices so high I don't see how Dell, Asus and others are going to be able to compete. Unless the build quality is significantly worse than a M1 macbook air not sure budget PC makers will be able to compete.
This is Apple's "Nintendo moment" when they realize they can package old hardware and win on polish and ecosystem.