- #MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW FOR MAC#
- #MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW MAC OS#
- #MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW INSTALL#
- #MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW UPGRADE#
- #MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW FULL#
Later this year, we'll say hello to macOS Monterey and all of its new goodies.
#MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW UPGRADE#
There are four settings - productivity, games, design, development - and Desktop tweaks memory, graphics and other settings in a VM to make it run at peak performance regardless of what you’re using that machine for.Īll-in-all, Parallels Desktop 13 is a solid upgrade and the best way to run apps from almost any operating system on a Mac.Each fall, Mac users are introduced to an operating system update. One other feature that is really valuable is the ability to have Parallels Desktop optimize VM settings automatically for the fastest possible virtual environment. It’s possible to run Windows apps as required at a snappy pace, even when those apps are graphics-intensive.
#MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW FOR MAC#
What I find refreshing about using Parallels Desktop for Mac 13 is that on today’s higher-powered Macs, virtual machines no longer seem to run slowly. Many of the functions of Parallels Toolbox are better done by other utilities.
#MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW INSTALL#
While I am a big fan of both Parallels Desktop and the Parallels Access app (which allows remote access from any iOS device), I find the Parallels Toolbox - a collection of over 30 utilities for the Mac - to be somewhat redundant so I do not install it. Since it has been released, running a beta environment for newer versions of High Sierra has been stable and fast. Trying to run early developer betas of macOS High Sierra prior to the release of Parallels Desktop 13 was impossible. I find Parallels Desktop to be valuable in running beta versions of operating systems…once those versions are actually available. Last, but certainly not least, you can even set up an Android VM! Parallels includes a number of free systems for quick setup, including the Windows 10 Development Environment, the Modern.IE Test Environment, your existing macOS installation (it installs from the Recover Partition), and Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Mint and Debian GNU Linux. (The Parallels Desktop 13 control center with a variety of operating systems.) It’s also possible to install Windows from an image file or DVD, or even transfer it to a virtual machine from a PC that you’re replacing with a Mac. If you’re adding a Windows 10 VM, you don’t even need to own a license while setting up the VM you can do that directly from Microsoft during setup. External Thunderbolt SSD drives now respond at near native speeds, snapshots of VMs with a large amount of memory happens up to 50 percent faster, working with Windows files on a Mac is now up to 47 percent faster, and even USB devices perform up to 40 percent faster.Īnyone with a Retina display will also like that transitions and the sharpness of text and graphics in scaled mode are much improved over the previous versions.Ĭreating a new VM of any sort is still fast and easy with Parallels Desktop 13. Of course, Parallels has drastically improved the performance of Desktop 13. For the user, they don’t even have to know that the Windows application is running in a VM.
The Business Edition of Parallels Desktop for Mac has a Single Application mode, perfect for admins who want to deliver an invisible Windows VM with selected apps to a user’s Mac Dock. (Windows 10 in main window, with other operating systems in PIP mode.)
This is useful if you’re running a time-consuming process in a VM you can continue to work on the Mac yet see at a glance how far along the VM process is.
#MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW FULL#
One of my favorite features of Parallels Desktop 13 is the Picture-in-Picture view, which creates windows of active virtual machines that are always visible on top, even if a Mac app is in Full Screen mode. When it’s available, Parallels Desktop users will be able to add favorite contacts to the Mac Dock. Microsoft is launching a new feature for Windows 10 called the People Bar that will let users pin contacts to the Taskbar. It’s also possible to customize Touch Bar actions for Windows apps that run in Parallels Desktop. Taskbar pinned elements are in the Touch Bar, along with buttons for Cortana, Task View and settings. The Touch Bar is integrated for Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Parallels Desktop 13 is the first version of the app to provide a way to run Windows apps and provide some control from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar. Let’s take a look at Parallels Desktop 13.
#MAC PARALLELS 13 REVIEW MAC OS#
With every release, Parallels seems to make it easier to run Windows and other operating systems (including older versions of macOS and Mac OS X) on a Mac.
During the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of working with Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac, the latest in a line of virtualization tools from Parallels.
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