Can MacBook Air 2015 4GB be used?

[LarsR1]

Hi
Need a windows install for only small simple programs. The programs are using a USB cable to create virtual Comport for communicating with some devices.
No network access is needed for the Windows VM.
I have both a Win7 and a Win10 license to use for this (which one preferred?).
Need advice before buying Parallels Desktop for Mac?
br Lars

 

[Maria@Parallels]

Hi, as I know Microsoft is stopping support for Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-windows-7-support
But you can install and use Windows 7 and 10 as a Parallels VM os and test both OS.

 

[TonyC2]

it'll be slow to boot more than likely with either OS, but 7 should be a little happier with the lower resources you'll have available - though win 10 should run okay as long as you give it as much ram as you can. i would suggest trying downloading the trial of parallels before committing, you can download the 90-day windows test environment which is windows 7 to try it out on your system.