I want to buy a shared laptop for me and my wife. Obviously I want the MacBook Air , but there is problem.
My wife does backyard astronomy. This is a kind of niche hobby that really needs windows. . I know that boot camp won’t work, but parallels does. Looking into it further it works with a special ? invite version of windows.
I use it every day and all the software I need (mainly dev and data vis) works perfectly. It’s easy to sign up for Windows insider, then you can download the ARM version.
Just being curious (sorry off topic), what astronomy software does she like to use? I use Stellarium (sometimes) which works fine on macOS (including M1 under Rosetta)
Yes, there are many s/w that astrophotography uses that is Windows only and some like Celestron’s PWI controller. I will check out the thread @mina mentioned. I have a M1 and a new Celestron StarNex 8SE coming soon. To this point I have used a Canon M50 with a Sigma 600mm lens. And some of the citizen scientist s/w requirements by NASA also are Windows only.