Intel MacBook Pro

[oasantos1]

I can't help myself and I'm always looking for used Macs on offerup/craigslist and so on.

My current Macs are all AS. I was thinking of getting an Intel MBP 15" (2015) "just to have" an Intel Mac and the ability to run Windows too.

I guess, I'm just wondering if anyone else does this or am I just being delulu in wanting another Mac in my home. 😅

 

[CanPhantom]

Not just you, I hung onto a used PowerMac G3 well into the Intel transition, as well as a Mac mini G4 that I bought after the transition had been announced.

Although I wouldn't buy an Intel machine just to run Windows. The Apple Silicon machines run the ARM version of Windows quite well, and generally much faster than the x86 version of Windows is going to run on an Intel Mac.

 

[Fishrrman]

I don't regularly use Windows. I do have a need for it now-and-then to run a few small apps for which there is no Mac equivalent.

I've tried both VMWare Fusion and Parallels "on the Intel side" (2018 Mac Mini).
I've also tried Windows 10 and 11 using Parallels "on the Apple Silicon side".

Parallels and Windows 11 seems to run MUCH faster with Apple Silicon. Again, my experience is limited to a few small apps.

Have you tried it? There's a demo version...

 

[Makisupa Policeman]

That was a great machine especially at the time, I can understand the nostalgia for it. The last beefy MBP (until ASi of course) before Ive’s obsession with thin and light at the expense of everything else (sorry but truth hurts).

I wouldn’t want to pay more than a couple hundred for something like that because it’s about to be unsupported when Monterey gets dropped, but I do like the idea of having a “fun” computer to toss around, that I don’t feel like I need to baby as much or if it breaks it’s no huge loss.

So yeah, if you can get a good deal, what the hell?

 

[CanPhantom]

Parallels and Windows 11 seems to run MUCH faster with Apple Silicon. Again, my experience is limited to a few small apps.

I'd say that goes beyond a "seems." I do software development with my Windows VMs, so the tools can be pretty beefy. The machine doesn't even break a sweat. I've yet to feel it even get warm, and everything runs objectively faster than an x86 VM.