MacBook Pro 14" fan noise with 8 cores vs. 10 cores

[Greg21]

I would like to switch from my current MBP 13" with Intel quad-core i7 to the new MBP 14" with M1 Pro. However I am not sure if the base model with 8 cores would be sufficient, or if I should opt for 10 cores. My biggest concern is fan noise as I am mainly using MS Office and video calls (Teams) within the Parallels VM. With my Intel MBP the fans turn on and get very loud immediately once I switch on the camera, which is quite distracting.

Does anybody have experience or recommendations, are you experiencing fan noise with Teams video calls with the 8 core or 10 core M1 Pro machines?
Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Greg

 

[Silvan1]

Your mom's iMac from 2015 can handle those apps

Also, those apps are available for MacOS, why run the VM.
Also, no camera support as of 2022-04-12 "USB and camera sharing are also missing in macOS Monterey VM running on a Mac with Apple M1 chips so far", support article: https://kb.parallels.com/125561

 

[Greg21]

Hi, many thanks for your feedback! I didn't know there were such limitations on M1 Macs. https://kb.parallels.com/128867 mentions a couple of them, including shared folders, which I use a lot. So basically the M1 is not yet an option for me until a few of these limitations are resolved, thanks for pointing these out!

My initial question was about the fan noise when using Teams in a Windows VM, these are very noisy on my current Intel MacBook Pro and cause distraction. I am running a Windows VM for my work and have to attend and organize a lot of Teams meetings with screen share, seems that this is not yet possible on the M1 Macs.