MBP work laptop

[MrBaker89]

Hey all, 

 

So I'm a sysadmin at a small business (48 employees.)

We are moving to a new site, which I have overseen a brand new network deployment and setup, this was my first project like this. As a "job well done"  My MD as said get yourself a new machine £4k budget. 

I tried my friends M2 MBP last weekend and I fell in love with it! I said to him, I would buy one of these in a heartbeat but I work in a windows environment. He replied, "you know you can run windows on them with Paralells" my jaw dropped and I've been looking into it since. 

My question is, does anyone here have experience using a MBP with parallels and windows? 

The things I am concerned about:

 

● Network drives
● Limiting my capabilities as a Sysadmin
● Remote Desktop connections to servers or workstations

 

Could this work?

 

TIA everyone!

 

[monopoly_hater]

I think it should work.

[whispous]

Windows in a VM is still Windows. It will do everything that Windows does, admin-wise.

 

Do consider that half of the point of a Macbook vanishes the second you start using Windows, though.

 

What was it you liked about the MBP?

[MrBaker89]

6 minutes ago, whispous said:

Windows in a VM is still Windows. It will do everything that Windows does, admin-wise.

 

Do consider that half of the point of a Macbook vanishes the second you start using Windows, though.

 

What was it you liked about the MBP?

Thank you for your reply. 

 

From what I have read, it is an ARM based version of Windows that runs in paralells. Would this not lose some functionality? 

 

Do consider that half of the point of a Macbook vanishes the second you start using Windows, though. - Apologies, I don't quite understand what you mean here. 

 

The speed, the battery life, the fact that the performance didn't tank when you go onto battery power. His MBP smashed my laptop when we both tried to open the same VB project.