Parallels

[Ainippe]

Does anyone have any experience running "Parallels"? It has been recommended to me to I can run both OS's.

 

[MagicBoy]

Yes, I do. I've been running it since it was in Beta back in 2006.

 

[guklein]

Installing Parallels will affect the performance of MBP?

 

[MagicBoy]

No difference in performance when parallels is not running.

As for when the VM is running it depends on the Mac and what resources are allocated to the VM.

 

[andeify]

Here's an example, I have a late 2012 Mac Mini dual core i5 and it can easily run 3 VMs at once, however I do have an SSD. When I had the hard drive I found the VMs to run really slow, but the Mac side was still fine.

 

[snaky69]

Does anyone have any experience running "Parallels"? It has been recommended to me to I can run both OS's.

Thousands upon thousands of people. It works fine.

 

[j.benj]

Yep, works very well. I've been running Win7 x64 on a Parallels VM for a couple years now and haven't had a whole lot of issues. On average the VM is pretty snappy with most applications I've tried.