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Virtual machines run the same basic type of machine code as the underlying machine.

So on Apple Silicon Macs, Parallels Desktop cannot run regular Intel versions of Windows. It can only run Windows 11 for ARM. That version of Windows has built-in emulation/translation for running some Wintel applications – but there are limits as to what it can run, and there is overhead.

If the application that you want to run is "quite resource hungry and makes [your] current windows laptop fans spin like crazy", I would think twice about running it under Parallels on an Apple Silicon Mac. Especially if the application is only available for Windows/Intel and not for Windows/ARM.

This may be a case where you need to think about either

• Buying a Windows laptop to run that Windows-only application, or
• Looking for some alternate, native Mac application that will do a similar job, if you want to switch to the Mac

Servant of Cats wrote:

If the application that you want to run is "quite resource hungry and makes [your] current windows laptop fans spin like crazy", I would think twice about running it under Parallels on an Apple Silicon Mac. Especially if the application is only available for Windows/Intel and not for Windows/ARM.

To elaborate, you'd be adding two layers of overhead:

• The overhead of running Windows 11 for ARM inside of a virtual machine.
• The overhead of running a Wintel application in emulation/translation inside of Windows 11 for ARM.

The way to get the advantage of an Apple Silicon laptop would be to run a Mac application, one that was native to Apple Silicon. One that wouldn't throw away the efficiency of the hardware by burdening it with a couple of layers of overhead.