have Windows 11 in case I need the real environment for Office and such.

NET or for playing with cross-platform tools like Xamarin

have Windows for doing any skill-building/projects for.

have the Mac for doing any skill-building/projects for native IOS.

run VS 2022 Community Edition on Windows - it works better than VS 2022 on the Mac - I've played with it and it's just not the same.run VS Code on the Mac - I just like the 'feel'.My goal is to be able to do all of the following: So I decided to install Parallels and run it through a trial and see what it might be like to actually run all the Windows stuff I need on the new MacBook Pro M1 alongside everything else. My desktop is also getting pretty old - it's at least 6 years old now. And once I got the Ivanky docking station set up, I now have 3 displays - the 2 big screens from my old desktop, and my laptop display. The sound is actually better which I find surprising. The retina display is awesome and seems better than what I had. I had a 15' display and the new laptop is 14', but it's really not a big deal. Not a beast by any means but compared to what I had been using - awesome! I got a great deal on a 2021 M1 chip MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. My setup of the new MacBook Pro M1 went great. So, I would spin up a SQL Server container when I need it, or mySQL, or PostgreSQL, as needed. I also started using Docker Desktop more to organize all the database stuff and other installs. On the desktop, I would run Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition and do most of the back-end work there. So I would do most of the front-end work on the Mac in VS Code. On the Mac I would run Visual Studio Code and use GitHub to check everything in and then if I wanted, fetch and run it on the desktop. I was doing this work across a combination of my old 2015 MacBook Pro laptop, and an older Powerspec desktop running Windows 10. However, I've also been doing quite a bit of skill-building in React, Node.js, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, mySQL, and some nice css libraries like MUI and Tailwind.css.

Parallels for m1