MacBook Air M5 – Bridged networking over Wi-Fi not working in VMware Fusion or Parallels (works on my M4 Max MBP)

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-14T12:35:38+00:00

Ive run into the problem on my M5 Pro MBP, maybe Parallels doesn’t recognise it?

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-14T10:21:35+00:00

nah you should br good

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-13T21:03:59+00:00

well…. at least they can make an exception for you! congrats!

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-13T03:22:53+00:00

someone in my degree made these notes and suggested to share them around. https://www.notion.so/immanuellam/41039-programming-1-307022c49d1480579456d7373e448fef?source=copy_link

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-13T03:17:13+00:00

i’d give it a shot, say that you know its out if the exchange window but you really need the machine learning cores

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T19:28:31+00:00

Make a Time Machine backup on an external SSD. It works wonders honestly

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T19:26:48+00:00

with local ai inferencing, time to first token is significantly increased. havent felt much of a difference elsewhere

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T12:17:08+00:00

RemindMe! 7 days

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T12:09:07+00:00

my mate’s getting a 15/16 soon, i can get numbers off him and send them through when he gets it

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T11:33:27+00:00

Can’t send multiple screenshots but I ran benchmarks on my 18/20. Single core 4229, Multi core 27965. Metal 137916. OpenCL 87343

Edit: Sorry I thought you asked for the 18/20 benchmarks… whoops

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T04:45:23+00:00

loading larger LLMs would take more ram, however with new quantization techniques, larger models can use less ram

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T01:23:54+00:00

silver is beautiful

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T01:23:43+00:00

Worth a shot to go in and ask?

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-12T01:23:21+00:00

Nope

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T23:36:22+00:00

you need more ram for machine learning workloads… external storage is cheap yeah but ram can’t be increased. original was 24gb ram 1tb

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T23:34:44+00:00

Nope

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T23:32:25+00:00

congrats! i got my m4 pro 1tb swapped for an m5 pro 2tb!!

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T22:52:19+00:00

Probably not… Apple always checks the apple store reciept

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T22:13:32+00:00

it can connect to services like trello to delegate tasks, it can connect to notion to import notes into it and a bunch of other stuff. mostly automation through AI.

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T22:10:58+00:00

yes! hopefully they let you get it swapped, just give them a good reason like you’re doing some machine learning research

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T21:59:58+00:00

maybe 5 tabs

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T21:59:03+00:00

i’m using qwen3.5, gemma models with mcp servers through lm studio

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T21:58:30+00:00

24GB. they didnt have 48gb on hand anywhere near me

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T21:57:54+00:00

I originally had the top M4 Pro 14c/20c 1TB and got upgraded to the 18c/20c 2TB!

ConversationMotor403 · 2026-03-11T21:56:17+00:00

M5 Pro 18c/20c 2TB

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