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45 minutes ago, f23948 said:

i mean, is VirtualBox good for macbook air or macbook pro?

VirtualBox is good. I prefer VMWare if I'm hosting virtual machines locally, the interface is nicer.

 

1 hour ago, ulookuglynoob said:

If you are doing a virtual machine, you don't really need much power, just a good wifi connection, so you might as well get the air, unless you plan to do other things with the macbook thats not virtual machine, then get the pro.

Hosting virtual machines takes a lot of processing power, you need a lot of CPU cores and memory. Remote accessing is what requires a good internet connection, and is very different.

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If you are doing a virtual machine, you don't really need much power, just a good wifi connection, so you might as well get the air, unless you plan to do other things with the macbook thats not virtual machine, then get the pro.

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24 minutes ago, ulookuglynoob said:

If you are doing a virtual machine, you don't really need much power, just a good wifi connection, so you might as well get the air, unless you plan to do other things with the macbook thats not virtual machine, then get the pro.

You must be thinking of remote desktop or the like. Virtual machines need just as much, if not more, power than if it was a stand alone machine. It has to run the base os after all as well as what ever machine you want to virtualize.

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45 minutes ago, f23948 said:

i mean, is VirtualBox good for macbook air or macbook pro?

VirtualBox is good. I prefer VMWare if I'm hosting virtual machines locally, the interface is nicer.

 

1 hour ago, ulookuglynoob said:

If you are doing a virtual machine, you don't really need much power, just a good wifi connection, so you might as well get the air, unless you plan to do other things with the macbook thats not virtual machine, then get the pro.

Hosting virtual machines takes a lot of processing power, you need a lot of CPU cores and memory. Remote accessing is what requires a good internet connection, and is very different.

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2 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

You must be thinking of remote desktop or the like. Virtual machines need just as much, if not more, power than if it was a stand alone machine. It has to run the base os after all as well as what ever machine you want to virtualize.

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What virtual machines are you running? 

 

Macs are probably not best for this as there either ARM systems that will have less OS support, or 4+ year old intel systems. 

 

Is there a reason why you want a mac for this workload?

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6 minutes ago, f23948 said:

Virtualbox 

What operating systems are you looking to run within VirtualBox?

If you are looking to run the normal x86 version of Windows or Linux, going with a laptop running an x86 chip (Intel or AMD) would likely be a better way to go, unless you really want macOS and VirtualBox is just to help you get past the learning curve.

 

Also keep in mind that the main benefit of the "Max" chip is more GPUs. Unless you're doing graphics work in the VMs, and VirtualBox can use the GPUs (which I doubt), that extra power will all go to waste.

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31 minutes ago, undergroundbeef said:

What operating systems are you looking to run within VirtualBox?

If you are looking to run the normal x86 version of Windows or Linux, going with a laptop running an x86 chip (Intel or AMD) would likely be a better way to go, unless you really want macOS and VirtualBox is just to help you get past the learning curve.

 

Also keep in mind that the main benefit of the "Max" chip is more GPUs. Unless you're doing graphics work in the VMs, and VirtualBox can use the GPUs (which I doubt), that extra power will all go to waste.

Zorin os. I mean I'm going to use UTM, not virtualbox 

https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements/#with-apple-silicon-processors

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5 minutes ago, f23948 said:

Zorin os

https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements/#with-apple-silicon-processors

What do you want to do in Zorin OS? 

 

Virtual box has pretty bad graphical performance, so I'd probably not want to use it if you need to use the GUI much.

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1 minute ago, f23948 said:

Zorin os. I mean I'm going to use UTM, not virtualbox 

https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/syst

UTM I think has even worse graphical performance as its using the qemu virtual GPUs.

 

Why zorin OS? I think Its debian/ubuntu under the hood with a different GUI. Since the GUI performance will be not great I'd stick with debian if it was me. 

 

If you want to mostly use linux, why get a mac? 

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