@marcusphelan @donncha I paid 71 quid on amazon for a 5tib my passport in jan 2020. it was dead within 2 months. as someone who has had only 5 wd drives fail in 25 years out of dozens of the things, you can imagine how annoyed i was!

so @gruber was asking about win11 over parallels on macos on arm; i've been doing that for about 8 mo now with win11 enterprise over parallels 17/18 on an m1 pro mbp w/32gib ram. can't speak to batt life as wfh means i'm on a tb3 dock most of the time, but light loads like office, teams, edge are snappy + responsive, even with corp mdm + av installed. occasional use of x86 perforce is a dog, but that may be for various reasons. wsl2 sadly impossible since m1/2 doesn't do nested virt under macos.