Launch windows apps from the mac dock. We are beyond thankful for the feedback of more than 100,000 m1 mac users that tested the technical preview of parallels desktop 16.5 for m1 mac. However, upgrading to windows 11 was a much rockier experience, although this had nothing to do with the virtualization tool and everything to do with apple silicon.
Parallels Is Excited To See The Performance, Power Efficiency, And Virtualization Features That Are Brought To The Mac With The Apple M1 Chip.
I use it for only light work (some adobe acrobat stuff and ms office), but it works just fine. Both parallels for m1 and windows for arm are free (while in beta), and running x86 compiled programs very well. Parallels runs fine on my m1 pro with 16gb ram.
However, This Is Not Optimized For Arm M1 Chips So Although It Works, It Doesn’t Work As Fast As It An Native M1 Chip Version Would.
Apple’s “one more thing” event on november 10, 2020, revealed the first mac computers powered by the apple m1 chip. Optimized for apple m1 chip. Now, parallels desktop 17 is being released with improved performance on m1 macs, as well as full support for the upcoming macos monterey and windows 11 operating systems.
However, If You Find An Issue With Parallels Desktop 17 That Can Be Reproduced On A Mac With An Apple M1 Ultra Chip, Kindly Let Us Know On The Forum.
Parallels desktop is a software for mac devices to run other operating systems in it. Overall, parallels desktop 16.5 is a great software for mac users. You should post this on the parallels support forum.
Mainly People Use It To Run Windows On Mac Because There Are Many Things You Can Do On Windows Which You Can’t In Mac.
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