- The author still uses a MacBook Air 2012 for browsing and is locked into the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone.
- They purchased the entry-level Mac Mini M4 with 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage for their work with Visual Studio 2022.
- Basic tasks such as browsing and modifying tables work perfectly on the new Mac Mini M4.
- The author uses XrmToolBox as their first tool for Power Platform activities.
- The new Mac Mini M4 is an ARM machine, and the author chose to use VMware Fusion Pro for virtualization to run Windows 11 Arm edition.
- XrmToolBox works fine in the virtual machine running Windows 11 Arm with only 4 GB of allocated RAM.
- The author uses several XrmToolBox tools, including FetchXML Builder, Plugin Registration Tool, Custom API Manager, Ribbon Workbench, and Dataverse REST Builder, all of which work well on Windows 11 Arm.
- With multiple apps open, including the virtual machine, the author uses around 8/9 GB of RAM, indicating that 16 GB of RAM is sufficient for their needs within the virtual machine.
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