Thats good news for people that need that windows 11 compatibility.
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Parallels for Apple Silicon Macs Now Supports Windows 11 Pro
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Yay! Why should anyone pay developers for their apps? /s
If UTM works for you, that's great. Doesn't mean that others of us shouldn't want supported software that has been developed for performance.
Is it even possible to develop Bootcamp to run on Apple Silicon? No conjecture/guessing. Just hard facts please.
Better??? Please tell me how it runs "better". Give specifics, not absurd generalizations. I've used Fusion and now Parallels. Tried to install W11 into UTM based upon all the glorious reviews from MR users. It wouldn't even boot after installation. You can keep your UTM garbage. I'm happy to pay for Parallels which runs the software I need very, very well.
I haven't noticed any difference in speed most of the time, but sometimes the preview had more bugs.
All to change it to the released version is buy a Windows 11 key, enter it, and turn off the preview program in Windows update and settings.
Most x86 apps will run on Windows 11 ARM. I run Quicken for Windows since it still has features that haven’t made it to the Mac version. It runs decently, though recent Quicken updates have slowed it down a bit (opening and closing the app, etc.).
Crossover runs 32-bit software in a layer to make it appear 64-bit. It’s working around a limitation in Rosetta. Apple acquiesces to Codeweavers and occasionally makes changes to Rosetta 2 to enable it to work. But Rosetta was intended to be limited to 64-bit macOS apps. For its intended use, Apple’s solution is more efficient. But kudos to Microsoft for supporting ARM. Microsoft has always been in favor of backward compatibility.
You can purchase Windows 11 through Parallels. Or you can still download the ISO from the Microsoft Preview site and enter a valid Windows key after installation.
That's a strong statement. It really requires examples, or it's meaningless. But please don't tell me that an extreme gaming program that only runs with 34,000 cores requires Bootcamp.
You wouldn’t just have to pony up a hundred bucks for a Parallels license on a yearly basis as Apple would take care of keeping BC updated just like it did for Intel Macs.
Are you sure about the purchase option? With Parallels, you can download W11 as part of a VM creation. But I don't think Parallels is selling licenses.
I had good luck using an earlier preview on my M1 Macbook Air with ArcMap but now I just remote in to my work machine using VMWare Horizon or TeamViewer/Moonlight to my Windows computer at home which is now relegated to a dark corner. Been doing it this way on my Intel and Apple Silicon Macs and find it works great. Everything runs natively and pretty easy to get setup. For instances where I need to do GIS work in the field with no internet access I just use QGIS which works great in Rosetta 2 and an Apple Silicon version is already floating around and apparently works well.
I'd like to see Esri officially support macOS and in my last meeting with Esri Canada reps they said it is an often-requested feature so who knows!
But having to reboot the Mac to use Windows and not be able to easily switch between the Mac and PC side without rebooting is a huge limitation for me. Parallels works so well with W11 ARM that I'm happy to pay for it.
Because the VM software have a hard limit on what resources you can allocate to them and they don't give you much to work with. Barely anything above 8 gb of RAM and only a few cores. Said limits do not exist in a dualboot.
To you. You don't dualboot we get it. Others do
Wow it's such a limitation to wait just 10 seconds to switch OSs.
The limitation he may be referring to is not being able to run both Windows and macOS apps at the same time.
BC and VMs are for two different purposes, each one has its advantages/disadvantages. One is only better than the other one from the user's perspective, not from a general perspective.
It would be very difficult since it would require Windows drivers for Apple Silicon.
Did anyone read the fine print?:
DirectX 12, a suite of multimedia technologies frequently used in Windows games and other apps, is not supported.
DirectX 12, a suite of multimedia technologies frequently used in Windows games and other apps, is not supported.