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MacUpdate Comment Policy. We strongly recommend leaving comments, however comments with abusive words, bullying, personal attacks of any type will be moderated. Email me when someone replies to this comment. Mcr Dec 4 As far as virtualizing Windows on AS Apple Silicon , the current state of affairs is fine and presumably will improve, as Derekcurrie pointed out.
What is really disappointing looking forward is the very poor support to date for virtualizing macOS Parallels and Fusion. Once Apple drops making Intel versions of macOS, unless there is a major improvement in macOS VMs AS support, if you need to do software testing, are we back to the days of having to keep actual mac hardware around with different macOSs installed?
Multiboot on one mac is not really an option because you really need concurrent access to your working environment and the testing environment, for quick testing and feedback. Derekcurrie Dec 3 The current version is Sorry paranoids! It works fine, no crashing or security concerns evident. I'm running old Windows x86 Intel software, including games, at decent speeds. Microsoft's x86 emulator is reasonable.
I've had no troubles adjusting to Windows 11 changes. Parallels has done a very nice job, highly recommended. JamesHarrisPhoto Aug 10 Mcr Jul 12 Here's what you need to know. The latest release is It runs on both Intel and M1 Macs. It is ONE product, shipped as an Universal app; you don't have to worry about ordering the Intel or M1 version of Parallels separately. On Intel Macs it runs basically unchanged as it has for the past few years.
There are various ARM based flavors of Linux. So if you have an M1 Mac and wanted to run macOS guest virtual machines, not possible at this time; stick with an Intel Mac. It will run ARM based versions of Windows software fine; it can also run Intel Windows apps, but does so in emulation mode.
The reviews I have read all say that amazingly, because the M1 is so fast and efficient, running Windows Intel apps under Windows ARM emulation, then virtualized, is not that bad, no worse than say running it on a ARM based Surface Pro. And in many cases, if you're a business, you already have old Windows boxes lying around.
Most current, popular business software like Office, Adobe, Quickbooks already comes in Mac and Windows versions which are basically feature identical. No, that's not the problem, it's the old software that's discontinued, no longer supported or upgraded, running on Windows 7 or XP that so many businesses still use. The licensing is an all together separate issue; for now you can get Windows ARM for free by signing up as an Insider.
The fact that Parallels has even come this far supporting Windows ARM is impressive technical, no doubt, but the company had no choice; once Apple discontinues Intel versions of macOS probably the os that comes after Monterey will be the last Intel release , Parallels would be out of business unless they came up with an answer to Apple Silicon.
VMWare, the company, is in a different position, its business model isn't dependent on selling Fusion, in fact Fusion at best breaks even or makes a modest profit. Parallels is desperate and should be; if there is no sustainable business model for ARM based virtualization of Windows and Linux, the company is done once Apple macOS stops supporting Intel Macs. Most annoying the recommended last option: upgrade to Catalina They should honestly admit that v 16 does not work with Mojave!
Overall comment : expensive and poor! I will cancel the order. Derekcurrie Feb 3 Mcr Jan 5 I've tried it, it works, for the most part, still a lot of work to do, but interesting.
Lingering application issues, emulation of Intel, problems running older bit Intel apps under emulation. What is not the case with Windows Not a bad package but vmware is faster.
Solo68 Dec 2 Ignore negative reviews about Parallels Desktop. I use Parallels Desktop Pro for Mac, and after the recent Now, it takes much longer for the VM to start and restart, much like a normal hard disk. Nonetheless, stability matters more to me. Furthermore, this latest update improved on the handling of memory. In earlier releases of versions 15 and 16 I noticed heavy memory usage, but that is becoming less of an issue.
I do wish Parallels didn't use memory unless it actually needed to use it, then allow macOS to reclaim it, just the way macOS does. I think this could use improvement. Yet, even with this issue, Parallels Desktop Pro is extremely stable. For those of us holding on to our older Macs we are grateful to have it. Thanks guys! Wishing you good health and greater success in the future!
To be honest it worked for awhile but the Mac mouse and keyboard drivers became corrupted and I could never download again. One of the things that we were surprised by was how much less disk space the base installation of Windows XP Pro used on v5 vs. As an aside, and having nothing to do with virtualization, the Windows 7 installations are a lot bigger than XP. We wanted to see how the virtual machine performed in several areas.
These included: launching the virtual machine with a full Windows boot, suspending the virtual machine, launching from suspend, compressing files, and File IO in particular with the smaller drive footprint. In all cases, except compressing files, Parallels Desktop 5 was noticeably faster than Parallels Desktop 4.
Compression was nearly identical between the versions. If you've never heard of 3DMark, it's the most popular 3D game performance benchmark. A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system's 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. The most important result is the "3DMark Score" which is an aggregate score that judges the overall 3D graphics performance. In short, Parallels Desktop 5 is more than 8x the speed of version 4. Some things that didn't run at all in version 4, now do well in version 5 with the additional feature support.
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