In May, 9to5Mac Jeff Benjamin posted a super-easy guide for installing Windows on M1 Macs using Parallels Desktop, which you can learn more about here. It brought up to 250% less energy used, up to 60% better DirectX 11 performance, and up to 30% better virtual machine performance than a Windows 10 VM running on Intel-based MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i9 processor. In April, the software was updated to version 16.5. Publicly, the company said it’s testing the software on macOS Monterey beta “to ensure full compatibility as soon as it’s released.” “Since Windows 11 has just been announced recently, the Parallels Engineering team is waiting for the official Windows 11 Insider Preview build to start studying changes introduced in the new OS to deliver full compatibility in future Parallels Desktop updates.”Īs for now, Parallels Desktop is in version 16, which is optimized for macOS Big Sur. Here’s what Nick Dobrovolskiy, SVP of Engineering and Support, told the website: This comes just a week after Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 to the public with an all-new design.Īccording to iMore, Parallels confirmed that the team is doing “everything that’s possible” to bring Windows 11 to macOS. Reader and developer Tero Alhonen got in touch and noted that while Microsoft recommends that "all virtualized instances of the Windows 11 follow the same minimum hardware requirements as described in Section 1.2, Windows 11 does not apply the hardware-compliance check for virtualized instances either during setup or upgrade.After bringing Windows 10 support to the M1 Macs, Parallels confirmed it’s working to bring Windows 11 compatibility to macOS. ® Updated to add at 15:29 UTC on 11 August: Black screen virtualizing macOS 12 with Parallels Desktop 19. Still, as Apple works to update its hardware to use its own silicon, Parallels Desktop 17 (combined with Microsoft's own efforts to make Windows on Arm usable) represents an avenue to get that one old Windows app working on your shiny new Mac. Parallels Desktop for Mac computers with Apple M2 chips. On top of that, one must factor in the cost of Windows itself. A new subscription will set a user back £69.99 per year, or a perpetual licence can be picked up for £79.99. For the majority who need it for that one weird app (apparently Excel), improvements in Coherence mode (where an app runs seamlessly on the Mac desktop rather than in a VM window) and other tweaks around functionality (such as drag and drop) will similarly be handy.Īway from Windows, Linux continues to be supported and audio and video improvements will please Penguinistas (although as with Windows, the user is limited to a subset of distributions when running on M1 hardware) and macOS Monterey is supported as both a host and guest operating system. On M1, Windows is running a lot faster than on Windows-specific hardware.Īs for the target market, Parallels told us that a significant portion of customers use the software to play Windows games on their Macs, and the new release shouldn't disappoint. Parallels was a little coy on the subject. Parallels Desktop version 18 is an authorized solution for running Arm versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise. Performance of the relatively weedy 8GB M1 Mac Mini was nearly double that of the Surface Pro X in single core, and a good 1.5x faster for multi core. To torture the hardware, emulation and virtualization, we fired up Sea of Thieves and were delighted to find it vaguely playable on the M1 Mac (Parallels recommends a 16GB Mac for gaming, we only had 8GB) even if the results of the experiment won't cause our dedicated gaming rig any sleepless nights.Īlthough some of the benchmarks we ran might cause some tossing and turning for users of Microsoft's flagship Arm-based kit. Native Windows on Arm apps flew along and even Intel apps behaved well. Our experience was that, subjectively, it was all simply a lot snappier. Parallels will cheerfully trot out stats claiming the startup time of Windows 11 is 33 per cent up on Windows 10 on Arm with a 20 per cent disk performance boost. The answer is very well, particularly considering the absence of Intel hardware.
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