Hi everyone, I'm planning to buy my first-ever Mac, and I'm looking at the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air. I'm only unsure about a few things - mainly the RAM configuration: 16GB or 24GB? I'm not planning to use Parallels as my main tool, but I'd like to run it occasionally (standard edition) to use some Windows software like: Visual Studio (for small personal projects in C# because I want to develop for Mac und Windows; Or should I use a native IDE for Mac-developement) Microsoft Office (only if they are differ to much) Maybe some other Windows-only utilities (Certain old or only-windows apps) I understand that the standard version of Parallels only allows you to assign 8GB of RAM (vRAM) to the virtual machine. And I want the one-time purchase option. Or is that a bad desicion? Because I could also get the version with the price for students, but I am not a fan of subscriptions. Maybe you could give me a good advise here too. So I have a few questions: 1. Does it even make sense to get 24GB of RAM if Parallels only lets you assign 8GB to the VM? I am planning to run only one VM at a time and when I run the VM, I won't have any other major apps open - it would often be the only thing running at that moment. And most of the time when not using Paralles, 24 GB would be overkill in my opinion for what I do with my computer. 2. Does the VM/Paralles or macOS benefit in any way from having more RAM available in the background, if I use it as described? Or is the difference between 16GB and 24GB pretty minor in my case and I should better gett 1 TB of storage instead? 4. Lastly, I sometimes like to play Minecraft - would that work well on this Mac configuration, either using the native macOS version or running it in the Windows VM via Parallels? I know the MacBook Air isn't a gaming laptop, but it would be nice to play casually every now and then. Thanks in advance for any advice! I'm completely new to the Apple ecosystem and appreciate any tips you can share.
