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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by r00fus on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:57PM (#23604288)
How many people still use Parallels or other virtualization for their Macs?

I've stopped doing that years ago. No need now - if you want to play Windows games, buy a PC - it's a lot cheaper.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by runxel on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:20PM (#23604839)
Still alot, I'd reason.

Especially – and funnily enough – in business contexts, where you need to run software which are each only available on either Mac or Windows, but not both.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by r00fus on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:54PM (#23606497)
Do you have any examples? I was running VMWare Fusion until about 2015 for my office laptop for Visio and Project, at which point I felt no need on my next refresh to simply not request it due to cloud-based alternatives.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by runxel on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:09PM (#23607450)
Yes, the NURBS (surface) modeler "Rhino" is one – or rather was; meanwhile it got a Mac version, but that one still has no feature parity, so you would still see this running in Parallels somewhere, I guess.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by moduspol on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:02PM (#23604426)
I don't.

I used Parallels for a while, and it was great, but then we kind of standardized on VirtualBox at work. It was okay.

But then our dev environments got too big to run on laptops, so now they're all cloud-hosted VMs. We still run Docker (which uses a VM under the covers for Mac) but that uses Apple's Hypervisor framework and isn't really "user-facing" virtualization.

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