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Parallels Desktop for Mac Updated With Support for ProMotion Displays and M1 Ultra Chip
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I can give 99.99 reasons (69.99 if you just want an upgraded reason) they don't do that.
future's looking bright for Windows ARM support. Hopefully we're not too far off from native BootCamp returning.
I believe my Mac Studio uses far less than this. I do have the base model though. Do you have the M1 Ultra variant?
I can’t say about other use cases, but I use parallels 17 to run an ARM based Debian server and some other Arm based Linux distributions for testing (on an M1 Mac mini). The performance of parallels using the Apple Hypervisor framework is excellent (at least from a cpu perspective).
I did give Arm windows 11 a try, it’s very fast (especially on startup).
I did give Arm windows 11 a try, it’s very fast (especially on startup).
Can only say have v17 on my M2 Air (16GB RAM apparently helps GPU) and I’ve been really very surprised at how well my Steam collection runs on Win 11. Crazy really when you go through the ‘Inception’ levels of abstraction at play.
Is this really worth an upgrade over PD17 for a M1 Pro user? I thought game controller support was already there (albeit somewhat patchy in some games in Windows)...
I bought the perpetual licence for PD17 so not keen to spend $70 on an upgrade which from what I can tell, won't really improve the experience since the 90%+ improvement on Win11 comes more from expanding the support for M1 Ultra as opposed to suddenly unlocking performance on an M1 Pro Macbook Pro 14".
I bought the perpetual licence for PD17 so not keen to spend $70 on an upgrade which from what I can tell, won't really improve the experience since the 90%+ improvement on Win11 comes more from expanding the support for M1 Ultra as opposed to suddenly unlocking performance on an M1 Pro Macbook Pro 14".
Fantastic. I don't use Parallels - I'm a vmWare user. But now that vmWare has finally woken up and taken the whole "Windows on Apple Silicon" thing seriously, this is great competition and will hopefully drive vmWare to scale up their efforts to compete. There's plenty of money on the table, vmWare. Get cracking.
It's not really up to Apple, though. Microsoft has an exclusive contract with Qualcomm to use only their processors, so running ARM Windows on Mac isn't really licensed, which is why we have to settle for technological previews, instead of shipping OS'es. Once that agreement runs out, MS will be free to let Apple do a Boot Camp for ARM Windows. Federighi has said as much. Apple is ready to implement it, but they have to get the OK from Microsoft first.
I don't know. Word is that the contract was for two years. I don't know when the start date was, but last year MS released the poorly received Surface Pro X, so if I were to guess, another year?
Working well, I have both Windows on ARM and Ubuntu ARM64 installed. Windows is running smoothly at my monitor's native resolution 144 Hz... and Ubuntu is running well too but only at 60 Hz. Seems like a worthwhile upgrade over v17. The upgrade was free for me as well.
Upgraded from Parallels 16 to 18. I see no change in performance. Running Windows 11 ARM.
Yeah at least once a year they will throw a 33% discount
They also tend to do a bundle for $50 with a year of PD Pro + some random software almost every year
It’s sort yes and no answer. You are unlikely to see any discount when the latest release comes out but they do start offering deals when the software has been out for a bit. For the last upgrade I think it was an Amazon voucher (obviously only useful if you shop at Amazon). The other thing to watch out for is where a full licence is discounted as that may be cheaper than an upgrade. I think this was the case when I added it to my MacBook in May, though was buying the full licence anyway.
Mainly the announcement of the mac mini clone to be used as a developer platform for Windows 11 on Arm.
It'll be an actual machine with windows 11 on Arm, spearheading the development and release of a regular version to hopefully be able to be installed someday on Apple Silicon.