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Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

icymountain said:
This. UTM is fantastic on Mac. I have also been using since I have "M" Macs, and it allows to get other OSes running very quickly, and for free, with open source code (it is a pretty nice front-end for QEMU).
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I tried it a while ago and never got it to work reliably.

hans1972 said:
It's a I'm willing to spend $100 per year for Parallel license and some hassle to avoid using Windows as the main system" situation.
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I usually am 2 revs behind, although with Fusion haven't bothered to update older Parallels; if I do it'll be one of their xx% off sales. I realize that is usually to milk the last $$ out of users before a new release; but I've found older versions run fine until MacOS breaks them.
 
rollingrock33 said:
Can you. Yes. Should you. No.
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When I first saw this, your reaction and this came to mind immediately…

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ZiBart said:
Same here.

Also, i just remembered, i have and can update the firmware of my Dell and HP monitors with VM Windows as they dont have MacOS option to do that. Another usage case although most likely a minor one.
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I tried installing ARM Windows to do something similar (upgrading firmware for a Dell TB Dock) but it fails saying it meeds x86.
 
hans1972 said:
To run Windows applications which doesn't exist for the Mac or perform badly, and in addition don't have a web version or work well from the web.

It's a I'm willing to spend $100 per year for Parallel license and some hassle to avoid using Windows as the main system" situation.
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Makes perfect sense. I have a Windows box around for the occasional game with friends and it makes me shudder when I have to use it.
 
coolfactor said:
Check out WINE. It uses Rosetta to run Windows apps directly, no Parallels needed. But Rosetta is scheduled for removal from macOS in September. Not sure why. It's a shame.
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You mean removed from next macos27.0? I had a very good experience with wine on ubuntu running a win application I’m still using. Was thinking to try installing it on my m4 mac, I should before it’s too late. Yes a shame if wine disappears.
 
M1000Giga said:
Why couldn't it?
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One issue is hardware support. Not all chips support virtualisation. The Mac Mini-based with A12Z CPU that was provided as a developper kit before the release of the M1 series did not. I have an iPad with that CPU and while I could install UTM on it, performance has been extremely poor, because all it can do is emulation. With virtualisation support in the hardware, you get run host OS at a speed close to native, which is the case here and it is very good news and was not guaranteed (at least, before this thread, I did not know whether A18 Pro would have virtualisation support or not) although the Neo is certainly not the first choice for someone who will run VMs all the time due to memory.
 
icymountain said:
Which OS did you try to run ? Did you play with the VMs provided on the UTM website ?
(I started with that, played with it a bit, and that helped me a lot when I created my own VMs)
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Sequoia. I tried setting up Win11 several times. I could get it running but after a while it simply stopped booting into the OS. Redoing the VM became a PITA so I stuck with Parallels and now Fusion.
 
boswald said:
Why would you buy a Mac to run Windows? Gaming? Some kind of enterprise requirement? I just don't get it.
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People have been doing this since the 90s. SoftPC. SoftWindows... the old Apple Dos compatability cards for Macs. Connectix Virtual PC (which is now the basis for Microsoft's own VM). Parallels. Boot Camp. UTM. VMWare. You're acting like this is weird when it's been a part of the Mac experience almost as long as Macs have existed.

Practically speaking there's a lot of software that runs on Windows that doesn't exist on a Mac and not everyone wants two computers.
 
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boswald said:
Never heard of it. Just checked and it seems like an interesting project.
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Yeah, I use it because I store most of my songs in FLAC, but there's absolutely no point (or storage) for that on my phone. This thing auto-converts it to whatever format I set it to. I can even set sophisticated rules as to which format and at which bitrate to convert to what.

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And of course, it doesn't just blindly copies everything, it only does so with files that have been changed or added, so a sync usually takes like 2 minutes after I add a couple dozen new songs.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any alternative yet, neither on Linux nor on macOS.
 
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bviktor said:
Yeah, I use it because I store most of my songs in FLAC, but there's absolutely no point (or storage) for that on my phone. This thing auto-converts it to whatever format I set it to. I can even set sophisticated rules as to which format and at which bitrate to convert to what.

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And of course, it doesn't just blindly copies everything, it only does so with files that have been changed or added, so a sync usually takes like 2 minutes after I add a couple dozen new songs.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any alternative yet, neither on Linux nor on macOS.
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That's really cool. I might have to look into that if I ever get back on Windows full-time.
 
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