It’s amazing in how many people want to run something in a machine clearly not intended for it, and then complain when it doesn’t run well. Parallels is about as intense as you can get on this machine while still allowing reasonable work to get done. But the word “reasonable” is the key. Why anyone would want to run professional software on a machine intended for students in high school and below as well as casual computer users is beyond me.
If you do, look for a used Macbook. You can get some good bargains if you know where to look. Look at Apple refurbished if you’re willing to pay a bit more but want a full warrantee with a really clean machine.
If Apple follows its convention of upgrading its popular products every year, and this is one of them, we will see the 12Gb RAM A19 Pro in this machine. That’s very noticeably more powerful, and 12GB RAM will be plenty sufficient for most of what people will run on this. It’s interesting that all of this runs on 8GB, so 12 should be really interesting.
