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A virtual machine environment on the Mac allows one to run a licensed copy of Windows or some popular distributions of Linux. John shows us how to also run macOS as a virtual machine guest OS. Parallels Desktop for Mac 12 offers a new Toolbox, support for macOS Sierra and gaming optimizations that allow Mac users to play Overwatch.
Parallels Toolbox is touted as a highlight of this year's version, offering users 20 tools to streamline commonly executed tasks. The toolbox resides in the menu bar as a drop down option, with one-click access to handy tools grouped into four sections: take screenshots, record screen, time and archiver. Alongside everyday tasks like capturing screenshots, Toolbox tools can initiate area, window and screen recording, download and convert videos, manage stopwatches, alarms, timers and date countdown utilities and archive files.
Additional tools include record audio, mute microphone and hide desktop, the latter being useful for screen recording and presentations. For those just getting started with Microsoft Windows, Parallels 12 adds the ability to purchase and install the operating system directly from the Parallels Desktop Wizard. In addition, a Scheduled Windows Maintenance option enables update downloads at times convenient to the user. Developers also worked with gaming studio Blizzard Entertainment to optimize Parallels 12 for Mac to support Overwatch, popular multiplayer FPS available on PC and Xbox.
Parallels' gaming chops also extend to the Windows 10 Xbox app, meaning users can stream Xbox games on Mac. Other new features include the ability to control storage space used by virtual machines from the Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra, port Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer passwords in Mac's Keychain, manually cancel VM actions and assign special behaviors to Windows apps. Parallels Desktop 12 also improved support for resizing Windows VMs on Macs equipped with Retina displays. As for backend improvements, Parallels Desktop 12 offers up to 90 percent faster Snapshot creation, 60 percent faster suspend of VMs and 23 percent faster Shared Folders performance. Finally, users can expect an up to 10 percent battery life improvement from previous iterations.
Existing users running Parallels Desktop 10 and 11 can upgrade to Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition can. Upgrade pricing comes in at $49.99 or $49.99 per year for the Pro Edition. New customer pricing for Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac, while the Pro Edition and Business Edition both cost $99.99 per year. Availability begins on Aug. Finally, Parallels Toolbox for Mac, which comes with all versions of Parallels Desktop 12, will also be available as a standalone product for $9.99 per year. A 14-day trial can be downloaded from the Parallels starting Aug.
The same procedure as every year. Basically they force u to upgrade since they wont support newer macOS versions. Lack of 3d support in macOS makes the VMs slow and useless.
We dropped Parallells for VMWare where we keep old customer projects that require specific OS and XCode version till they finally pay for an update. Parallels 11 is working just fine in macOS Sierra developer version for me.
That said I mainly use it to make external bootable disks of Windows as I prefer to boot directly into Window from my Mac Pro so as to get full GPU performance. Parallels is simply a means to an end for me, to run the free utilities (WintoUSB and MiniTools) to create the external boot disk so I am not testing it beyond that. Edited August 2016. Its not free for them to make updates. Typically software companies do not give software away.
You're not forced to upgrade. There are people using Parallels 11 on macOS Sierra right now and it works fine.
Totally disagree with VM's being slow. Windows 10 boots instantly for me as does Windows 7 Enterprise. I've tried VMWare and it blows. I had the same experience.
I switched to VMWare 7 a year ago and found it buggy, and its support for dual monitors was awful. Parallels allows you to have each of your monitors switch between host and guest OSes independently, while VMWare automatically switches all of your displays over to the guest OS. I Googled and Googled and poured over every option I could find and there didn't seem to be any way to fix this obnoxious behavior. VMWare was noticeably slower than Parallels as well. It's a shame, because I have multiple Macs and VMWare offers a much better licensing scheme where one license covers up to three Macs meaning I was only paying $50/year for upgrades. I've recently switched to Parallels Pro and am now paying $50/year for each of my machines. Rosetta was my best experience ever with legacy VM.
I run Snow Server in Parallels but it isn't as good. W7pro seems to offer XP mode, but died in boot camp, only in Parallels? Is legacy workflow one area Apple seems to miss sales in? Could that be an easy fertile field for growth? The 85% of (pc?) users that simply want a newer, faster computer that works with existing investments?
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No plug & pray hoping every year if they buy new hardware there last years hardware will still work or they will have drivers?? Curious what they really mean by 'support for Sierra' for the new release of Parallels. With VMWare Fusion I can still use the older version of Fusion with the newest version of MacOS and it does everything Fusion did when it was installed on the OS X that the version of Fusion was optimized for. New and improved features present in the latest version of Fusion are obviously missing but Fusion never stopped working. Since it still does everything I need and the new features are incremental niceties but non essential I found no reason to update Fusion. If older versions of Fusion quit working with the latest MacOS I'd be very disappointed. Makers of these MacOS add-ons should come clean about whether upgrading to their latest version that's aligned with a specific MacOS version is required or optional.
I am very upset with Parallels over the 'separate spaces' issue. They gave this issue a pass and released the upgrade knowing full well that it would cause a problem. The only way to see your Mac screen is to go to Mission Control and enable separate spaces, the log out and log back in.
I cannot use separate spaces because of certain issues and to have a minor app such as Desktop force me to change the way I work with my major apps is, to put it kindly, presumptuous as hell. This demonstrates a serious lack of regard for the customer and the fact that they did not mention this issue, even in a positively spun marketing blurb, but just took our money and then said, 'Oh, by the way.' That was deceitful and unethical.
I am going to be very unhappy with Desktop for a long time. To take it one step further, I am seriously considering requesting a NFR copy in order to write a review that specifically mentions this intentional gotcha. In the past, if I ever reviewed an app that had a serious flaw, I always gave the developer the benefit of the doubt, knowing that most developers would be working on the problem and that the issue would be fixed as quickly as possible. As such I would cancel the review rather than hammer the developer before they had a chance to make things right. With Parallels 12, however, their deceitful approach simply begs for a bad review. I am very upset with these guys and they deserve a serious hammering.
Mac users are fortunate to have not one, but two excellent commercial virtualization software packages to choose from, not to mention less-polished free alternatives like. In what has now become an annual ritual, and have updated their respective and products to coincide with the recent release of macOS Sierra. Last year, both companies delivered ambitious new versions to capitalize on back-to-back debuts of Windows 10 and OS X El Capitan, but the 2016 editions are somewhat more subdued by comparison.
VMware marked the occasion by launching Fusion 8.5, a maintenance update with no new features. Having celebrated its tenth anniversary for Desktop earlier this year, Parallels encouraged engineers to come up with at least one unique new feature to justify the upgrade to version 12, although the company’s usual relentless innovation produced a mixed bag this time around. The only “new” Parallels Desktop 12 feature is the standalone Toolbox application, which consolidates 20 Mac utilities into a single menu bar icon. Open the Toolbox Ironically, the marquee feature of Parallels Desktop 12 ($100 one-year Pro Edition or Business Edition subscription; $80 Standard Edition one-time purchase; $40 Student Edition one-time purchase) isn’t part of the core software at all, but a bundled standalone application called (sold separately for $10) which is installed via Preferences.
Toolbox consolidates 20 common, everyday tasks into a single menu bar window, making them easier to find and use. These tools offer one-click simplicity for downloading or converting video, recording audio, muting the microphone, or performing system tasks such as locking the screen, hiding the desktop, preventing your Mac from going to sleep, and Do Not Disturb, which temporarily pauses notifications and Dock activity. Yes, but none of the utilities are particularly special or unique, and power users are likely to have their own alternatives already installed. Others are grouped into categories, providing functionality for taking screenshots, screen recording, archiving files, or managing time. I found the stopwatch, alarm, timer, and date countdown in the latter group particularly handy, since I typically defer such tasks to my iPhone or Apple Watch.
Toolbox strictly works on the host OS—it has nothing to do with enhancing Mac, Windows, or Linux virtual machines. Why run only the latest version of macOS Sierra when you can install others as virtual machines and run them at the same time? One unfortunate side effect of Toolbox is that you’ll now have three separate Parallels icons taking up space on the menu bar: one for Toolbox, another for Desktop (when it’s actually running, of course), and a third for Parallels Access, the company’s $20 per year remote access service (included with annual Desktop subscriptions). There’s clearly room for some consolidation here, and the individual tools also add icon clutter to Launchpad, but at least they can be organized into a single folder there.
Parallels Desktop 12 can also be used to run Windows, and works seamlessly with the latest Windows 10. Always ready If you spend an equal amount of time in Windows and macOS, Parallels Desktop 12 offers a number of welcome enhancements. Performance has been boosted across the board, with 25 percent faster access to shared folders and snapshots, and noticeably speedier suspend and resume—under five seconds on my 27-inch iMac Retina 5K. VMs can now be configured to launch automatically when your Mac starts up, leaving them paused in the background while idle to avoid consuming valuable CPU time. (Remarkably, this continues to work even after quitting Desktop.) Located under Startup and Shutdown in the Options tab, “always ready in background” is accompanied by a handful of custom settings that determine how VMs behave when launched, closed, or shut down.
Hate Windows 10’s pushy software updates? Now you can block them until a more appropriate time with the new Maintenance feature in Parallels Desktop 12. One of my biggest Windows 10 pet peeves is the heavy-handed approach to automatic updates. I don’t use Windows daily, so it every time I launch Parallels Desktop, performance is degraded as updates start installing in the background. The new Maintenance option allows such tasks to be blocked until the scheduled time, such as a weekend when my iMac isn’t in use. (VMs must be open at the time.) PD12 includes one year of free online storage (500GB) from Acronis, which can be used to back up your virtual machines. Desktop 12 also makes using Windows on the Mac more seamless.
Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents in Safari can be configured to open in their respective desktop Office 365 applications, and passwords entered in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge can now be saved in your Mac keychain. Parallels Desktop 12 includes a one-year subscription to online cloud backup service Acronis for safely backing up virtual machines up to 500GB in size.
Last but not least, Parallels offers independent screen resolutions for multiple displays. In full-screen mode, my iMac runs Retina Display resolution, while the adjacent 27-inch Thunderbolt Display works as an extended 2560 x 1440 desktop, each in their own Space. (Sadly, there are no independent settings for backgrounds.) There is at least one area where Desktop 12 takes a step back.
Contextual menu shortcuts have been inexplicably removed from Control Center, which I always found quite handy for quickly reclaiming storage from my Windows VMs without having to open the Configure window. If you missed out on a free update to Windows 10, you can purchase a copy directly inside of Parallels Desktop 12 and install it right away. Bottom line If you already have an annual subscription, installing Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac is a no-brainer. Although the new Toolbox utilities aren’t compelling enough on their own to justify $50 for a perpetual license upgrade, the performance improvements and macOS Sierra support certainly are.