Visio performance on Mac Air M3 13?

[ManuelaS1]

Hello!

My old HP is going to die. Now I want to switch to Mac and use it for writing/office tasks (surfing/mail, use of visio, scrivener, working on my master thesis, etc.). As I need to use Visio, having Parallels is inevitable. As Visio interoperate with office, I need to run Office on Parallels too.

For testing purposes I borrowed a MacBook Pro M1Pro with 16GB/500GB and check it with Parallels. And the performance was ... mediocre. Now I am thinking to switch to MacBook Air 13, 24GB/1TB.

Does anybody has experiences how Visio etc. performs on this machine, when used in latest Parallels?

Thanks
Manuela

 

[SamS4]

We run all of the Office Suite including Visio and Project on M3 Macs running the latest Parallels on the latest version Windows, using 64-bit apps from Microsoft. The performance has been excellent.

If you wanted to "test run" the apps and Parallels on a Mac to make sure it works for you, I'd buy the desired Mac, install only Parallels, Windows 11, and MS Office and run your test. All of these products offer a 30-day trial period with full refund, so it would seem to be a no-brainer that you could verify performance first, and if adequate, start configuring the Mac to your needs with email, Apple ID login, etc.