There's still lots of specialized software that is only written for Windows. If you're working as a translator, for instance, you need Trados, which is the industry leader, only available on Windows. Now what if you happen to love your Mac, going back twenty years now? You've survived all the idiosyncrasies and spinning wheel days. It's finally the dependable machine you were craving in the 90s and with the M1 chip there's another reason to stay the course. Enter Parallels to save you from buyer's remorse and system envy. For the price of a not too fancy dinner you can have all of Mac's integrated hardware wizardwy combined with the business friendly ethos of Windows. And that's just the beginning cause if you've ever preferred the Mac OS finder to Windows' fussy filling system, Parallels gives you a choice that is so seamless you will forget that you're running Windows apps inside of Mac OS. Or you can choose a separate Windows UI that effectively gives you two laptops in one. Now who wouldn't take that choice? For my work as a freelance translator, Parallels paid itself off on the day I installed it. System requirements are very doable. I run 16 ram and 500 SSD on Intel Core i7 on my 2015 MacBook pro. I'm also using latest iteration Parallels 16, just in case I have to migrate to a new M1 Mac!
