Deals Spotlight: Buy or Upgrade to Parallels Desktop 14 and Get 10 Mac Apps for Free

[Jemi9OD]

"This offer is only available to new users of 1Password."

EDIT: Someone answered already

I'm wondering if I can just create a new vault and transfer

You probably could. I'm on a family plan so it's a little more complicated because it's not just my vault I'd have to consider. Still, 1Password is a sufficiently good platform to me that I'm okay just continuing to pay the subscription price. I pay once a year, so it's not like it's a monthly burden for me.

 

[geekon2wheels]

I used VMWare Fusion for years, but when they outsourced the entire Fusion team to China, I decided to switch to Parallels, a company based in Seattle. #supportamericanbusiness

I haven't looked back and Parallels is a superior product. For people who moan about paying for something that is mission-critical for my business, there's always VirtualBox!

 

[Mick-Mac]

I abandoned Parallels the instant they changed their policy to extract double the money from me. I had a paid license for years and ran the software both at home and work locations. After an upgrade a few years back I found out they changed their license agreement to suddenly be one license per machine instead of one per user. After running the new version at home I upgraded at work and it simply wouldn't run at all unless I whipped out my credit card and paid them again. I can't be at both places at once running both machines at the same time and I thought that policy change was a disgusting, greedy money grab. For their troubles they lost me as a guaranteed customer and it serves them right.

 

[chrfr]

I used VMWare Fusion for years, but when they outsourced the entire Fusion team to China,

VMWare did not outsource the entire Fusion team to China.
https://twitter.com/mikeroySoft/status/1045339688469286913

Also, Corel just bought Parallels, so now you're supporting Canadian business.

 

[RumorSeeker]

hello all,
I don't have any experience with anything but Parallels but I just got a new MacMini after the hard drive died in my mid-2011 Air and my early-2011 MacBook Pro is out for logic board repair. I had Parallels 13 on both machines and thought, since the Air is so slow as to be unusable with Windows anyway I would upgrade to 14 on the new Mini. I went to the parallels site to find the 13 registration key but they list only that I have 2 registrations, which I can not access by machine, so there is that... At the same time I see that I have a subscription to Parallels 14 that expires on Sept. something or other, 2019. I have never bought a subscription knowingly so this surprised me. I did buy it through OWC as a special for like $49 but just expected it to be a standalone app like ALL my previous Parallels going back to maybe version 3, been a long time, ha! So, I looked on Parallels site and saw their buy or upgrade to 14 was for a one year subscription also, so I don't know what happens when it expires. Oh, the Parallels 14 is installed on my newer MacBook Pro running Mojave.

 

[SteveW928]

So, does this mean Parallels 15 is coming really, really soon?

I mean. What does this parallels do differently from parallels 13

Mojave support, I think. In my (limited) experience, that's what keeps one buying it ever year at this point, so it may as well be a subscription (if there is some version of it that isn't... I thought it was subscription??).

It's well worth it if you use it for business, but if you're just using it occasionally (as it seems many here must be?), it is kind of expensive. But, that's how a lot of professional software is.

 

[gigapocket1]

So, does this mean Parallels 15 is coming really, really soon?



Mojave support, I think. In my (limited) experience, that's what keeps one buying it ever year at this point, so it may as well be a subscription (if there is some version of it that isn't... I thought it was subscription??).

It's well worth it if you use it for business, but if you're just using it occasionally (as it seems many here must be?), it is kind of expensive. But, that's how a lot of professional software is.

I have no problems with parallels 13 on Mojave

 

[OVERTASK]

You probably could. I'm on a family plan so it's a little more complicated because it's not just my vault I'd have to consider. Still, 1Password is a sufficiently good platform to me that I'm okay just continuing to pay the subscription price. I pay once a year, so it's not like it's a monthly burden for me.

I actually managed to swap the entire family over to the new account/vaults, actually very painless

 

[geekon2wheels]

Crap, @chrfr - you’re right. Thanks for the heads up! And Parallels has roots in Russia (no joke) - I better stop using it now and go back to Fusion.

All kidding aside - I had an issue with VMWare Fusion a few years back where my VM got corrupted while on a work trip and would not restore even though I had a backup of the VM disk file. I said *#%^ it and decided to give Parallels a try. I just hope I never have the same issue with this Russian-origin software!

VMWare did not outsource the entire Fusion team to China.
https://twitter.com/mikeroySoft/status/1045339688469286913

Also, Corel just bought Parallels, so now you're supporting Canadian business.

 

[SteveW928]

I have no problems with parallels 13 on Mojave

Interesting, maybe it is more like 'officially' supported or properly supporting Mojave features. I had seen a chart that showed Mojave missing the check mark from v13. In the past, my experience had been that once the new version of macOS came out, you'd have to have the current version of Parallels.

I'm currently using Boot Camp (as I need proper eGPU support), so I let my subscription lapse. I'm debating which way to go, though, once I get my current project done (that needs a specific piece of Windows CAD software). I would way rather be able to run Windows in a window on the Mac side of things most of the time. (And, I'm also not a PC gamer.)

 

[Packdude]

I don’t see that. This page says you need the subscription pro version to get “Customize Touch Bar for Windows applications”. I don’t consider that a feature exclusive for developers. I would expect an $80 utility to support custom Touch Bar controls. I can’t think of any reason for this being a pro feature other than to get people to move to the subscription option.
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Below is a screen shot of the page you are referencing. It shows that the Touch Bar is available in the Standard Edition. So you can pay the one-time $49.99 upgrade or $79.99 new license if you don't need any of the other features of the Pro edition. If you are someone who updates every year anyway, then why not go for the Pro subscription? I usually update every other year and haven't had any issues. I don't run macOS in a VM though, just Windows and Linux. I've used VMWare, but didn't care for it, so I switched back to Parallels.
I was debating getting this upgrade bundle, but the main thing I wanted was 1Password. Since it's only for new users, I'll pass until next year.

 

[jagooch]

Have they stopped the nag popups that tell you to upgrade or buy another of their products every time you launch Parallels? I'm on Parallels 12. I stopped using it because of the nagging popup window that tell me to upgrade every time I start the app.

if they promise, in writing, to discontinue the popup windows, I'll upgrade to Parallels 14.