


Then there are Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition, too. A perpetual license for upgrading from older versions of Parallels is available for $50, and new subscriptions cost $80 a year, with new perpetual licenses costing $100 a year. You also can share profiles, enjoy Touch Bar controls and customize Mac keyboard layouts.Ī 14-day trial of Parallels Desktop for Mac is available for prospective users, and anyone with Parallels version 16 can update to 16.5 for free. You can run Windows applications on your Mac as if they were native Mac applications, without managing two separate desktops or rebooting. Parallels Desktop 16.5 also supports features catered to the M1 Mac. Over 100,000 M1 Mac users also tested the Technical Preview of Parallels Desktop 16.5 for M1 Mac, according to the company. That’s because the Parallels team worked to reengineer the app under the hood for the M1 silicon. More specifically, Parallels says running Windows 10 on ARM on Parallels Desktop 16.5 with an M1 Mac performs up to 30% better than a Windows 10 VM running on an Intel-based MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9 processor. The latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac now allows M1 Mac owners to run Windows 10 on Arm apps or traditional x86 apps side by side with Mac or iOS apps on Big Sur. Parallels made sure that the best features of Parallels Desktop work with Apple's M1 chips, including coherence mode, shared profiles, Touch Bar controls, and the ability to customize your keyboard menu and shortcuts. Up to 30 percent better virtual machine performance (Windows): Running a virtual machine (VM) of Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview on Parallels Desktop 16.5 on an M1 Mac performs up to 30 percent better than a Windows 10 VM running on Intel-based MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9 processor.Up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance: Parallels Desktop 16.5 running on an M1 Mac delivers up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance than on an Intel-based MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 555X GPU.Up to 250 percent less energy used: On a Mac with an Apple M1 chip, Parallels Desktop 16.5 uses 2.5 times less energy than on a 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air computer.

Here are some highlights from Parallels on the new version: With native support for Apple's M1 chips, you can bring Windows 10 to Apple's popular MacBook hardware. The new version also delivers better virtual machine performance than running a Windows 10 VM on an Intel-based MacBook Pro. Parallels Desktop 16.5 is more energy efficient and delivers better performance than Parallels Desktop on Intel-based MacBooks. Parallels released a new version of its flagship software today that allows you to run Windows 10 on Apple's M1 MacBooks.
