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Description
Parallels Desktop® for Mac is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful application for running Windows® on a Mac®—without rebooting.
Note: Existing Parallels Desktop® for Mac users are not recommended to move to Parallels Desktop App Store Edition.
Installation Assistant helps you to get up and running in a few minutes.
Powerful performance lets you run common Windows applications—like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Quicken®, Visio or Microsoft® Visual Studio — or easily run the most demanding applications, such as modern Windows games on your Mac (Parallels Desktop is the first app in the world that supported DirectX® 11 in virtual machines).
Brought to you by the world-class developers of the #1-rated Mac virtualization software.
Pricing:
Running virtual machines on a Mac requires an in-app purchase of an auto-renewable subscription (1 year). You can cancel at any time.
There is a fully functional 14-day trial, so you can test Parallels Desktop before you commit.
Note: Microsoft Windows is not included and must be purchased separately.
Guest operating systems:
With Parallels Desktop App Store Edition, you can run the following operating systems in a virtual machine on your Mac:
- Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, and XP
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Sierra 10.12
- Most Linux distributions
System Requirements:
- Late 2011 or newer Mac
- macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or later
- 4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended/16 GB for best performance)
- 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation
- SSD is recommended for best performance
- Additional disk space for virtual machines (varies on operating system installed)
Features:
Seamless integration features between Mac and Windows, including productivity boosters built in. These features include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Copy/paste formatted text between macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Drag and drop files between macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Share Mac folders with Windows—including Desktop, Documents, and Downloads—without duplication and saving precious disk space on your Mac
- Resize window to get desired Windows or Linux resolution
- 3D graphics acceleration up to DirectX® 11
- Use Mac printers in Windows
- Connect USB devices to Windows
Feedback:
We want you to be completely satisfied with Parallels Desktop. If you have any feedback, problems or concerns, please contact us at https://www.parallels.com/products/lite/support/
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Duration and price of each subscription are displayed in the Parallels' storefront, updated at the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off no later than 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions and auto-renewal can be managed/turned off in the Apple ID account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://www.parallels.com/about/legal/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.parallels.com/about/legal/terms/
Note: Existing Parallels Desktop® for Mac users are not recommended to move to Parallels Desktop App Store Edition.
Installation Assistant helps you to get up and running in a few minutes.
Powerful performance lets you run common Windows applications—like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Quicken®, Visio or Microsoft® Visual Studio — or easily run the most demanding applications, such as modern Windows games on your Mac (Parallels Desktop is the first app in the world that supported DirectX® 11 in virtual machines).
Brought to you by the world-class developers of the #1-rated Mac virtualization software.
Pricing:
Running virtual machines on a Mac requires an in-app purchase of an auto-renewable subscription (1 year). You can cancel at any time.
There is a fully functional 14-day trial, so you can test Parallels Desktop before you commit.
Note: Microsoft Windows is not included and must be purchased separately.
Guest operating systems:
With Parallels Desktop App Store Edition, you can run the following operating systems in a virtual machine on your Mac:
- Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, and XP
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Sierra 10.12
- Most Linux distributions
System Requirements:
- Late 2011 or newer Mac
- macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or later
- 4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended/16 GB for best performance)
- 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation
- SSD is recommended for best performance
- Additional disk space for virtual machines (varies on operating system installed)
Features:
Seamless integration features between Mac and Windows, including productivity boosters built in. These features include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Copy/paste formatted text between macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Drag and drop files between macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Share Mac folders with Windows—including Desktop, Documents, and Downloads—without duplication and saving precious disk space on your Mac
- Resize window to get desired Windows or Linux resolution
- 3D graphics acceleration up to DirectX® 11
- Use Mac printers in Windows
- Connect USB devices to Windows
Feedback:
We want you to be completely satisfied with Parallels Desktop. If you have any feedback, problems or concerns, please contact us at https://www.parallels.com/products/lite/support/
— LEGAL --
Duration and price of each subscription are displayed in the Parallels' storefront, updated at the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off no later than 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions and auto-renewal can be managed/turned off in the Apple ID account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://www.parallels.com/about/legal/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.parallels.com/about/legal/terms/
Jun 11, 2019 Parallels Desktop is the best way to run Windows on your Mac. It offers lots of flexibility when it comes to which operating systems it can run and it.
What’s New
This is a major update for Parallels Desktop™. We made it more stable, secure and comfortable to use—and it’s compatible with macOS® 10.15 Catalina.
The product has been renamed to Parallels Desktop.
Though some features of Parallels Desktop™ for Mac are still unavailable in this App Store edition, the new version contains the following new features, fixes and improvements.
macOS 10.15 Catalina
-Use “Sign in with Apple” to create a Parallels account.
-Get improved support for Apple Pencil® drawing capabilities when you work with Windows applications on an iPad® using Sidecar.
- Tilt support for Apple Pencil
- Double-tap Apple Pencil to get new Touch Bar™ options
- Toggle between Pen, Eraser and Mouse modes
- Easily take a snip, enable Windows Tablet mode or open the Windows onscreen keyboard from Touch Bar
Graphics
-With the help of Apple Metal®, Parallels introduces support for DirectX® 11. Now you can run Autodesk 3ds Max 2020, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro 2.3, products from MasterSeries and more.
-Play popular games including Madden NFL 19, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Anno 2205, Railway Empire, Space Engineers, Frostpunk, Risk of Rain 2 and many more.
-DirectX 3D graphics are now accelerated by the Apple Metal engine.
-Enjoy enhanced compatibility with new Linux distributions due to Virtio GPU. This supports sliding mouse (Parallels Desktop captures the mouse cursor), dynamic resolution (the screen resolution changes dynamically if you resize the virtual machine window) and multimonitor support—even without Parallels Tools.
Performance
-Some applications can use DirectX 11 and thus are much faster, compared to being unusably slow in previous versions.
-3D graphics are up to 15% faster.
-User interface is more responsive.
Hardware
-Support for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) disk controller—the next generation of storage controllers. NVMe is more virtualization friendly and effective than Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI). NVMe leverages not just solid-state storage (SSD) but also modern multicore CPUs.
-Support for Intel HDA audio card:
- Supports up to 8/2 channels (out/in), 192kHz sample rate and 32-bit samples
- Improved sound quality of VoIP phones
- Support for “jack sense”
-Automatic detection when the microphone is muted. If access to the Mac microphone is not allowed by the user or macOS preferences, Windows shows the microphone as muted.
-Automatic detection when sound output is disabled. If it is disabled in the virtual machine settings, Windows also shows sound output as disabled.
-Support for Bluetooth Low Energy. This allows you to use more devices, including Logitech Craft, IrisPEN and some IoT devices (such as smart home appliances and smart bands).
-Version of the Bluetooth driver is 4.0.
Convenience
-When reverting to a snapshot, Parallels Desktop offers to save the current VM state as a new snapshot.
-Though dragging and dropping images has been supported from the very beginning, some of the latest macOS screenshots cannot be simply dragged to Windows because of the new format. We have enhanced drag-and-drop functionality—now you can drag screenshot previews, images from Safari, Photos and other macOS applications and drop them to your Windows applications.
-Completely redesigned keyboard layouts support several improved aspects, including:
- Excel shortcuts Ctrl+ and Ctrl- are now supported
- Improved support for JIS keyboard
- Fixed input with CAPS LOCK on for most of non-English layouts
The product has been renamed to Parallels Desktop.
Though some features of Parallels Desktop™ for Mac are still unavailable in this App Store edition, the new version contains the following new features, fixes and improvements.
macOS 10.15 Catalina
-Use “Sign in with Apple” to create a Parallels account.
-Get improved support for Apple Pencil® drawing capabilities when you work with Windows applications on an iPad® using Sidecar.
- Tilt support for Apple Pencil
- Double-tap Apple Pencil to get new Touch Bar™ options
- Toggle between Pen, Eraser and Mouse modes
- Easily take a snip, enable Windows Tablet mode or open the Windows onscreen keyboard from Touch Bar
Graphics
-With the help of Apple Metal®, Parallels introduces support for DirectX® 11. Now you can run Autodesk 3ds Max 2020, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro 2.3, products from MasterSeries and more.
-Play popular games including Madden NFL 19, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Anno 2205, Railway Empire, Space Engineers, Frostpunk, Risk of Rain 2 and many more.
-DirectX 3D graphics are now accelerated by the Apple Metal engine.
-Enjoy enhanced compatibility with new Linux distributions due to Virtio GPU. This supports sliding mouse (Parallels Desktop captures the mouse cursor), dynamic resolution (the screen resolution changes dynamically if you resize the virtual machine window) and multimonitor support—even without Parallels Tools.
Performance
-Some applications can use DirectX 11 and thus are much faster, compared to being unusably slow in previous versions.
-3D graphics are up to 15% faster.
-User interface is more responsive.
Hardware
-Support for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) disk controller—the next generation of storage controllers. NVMe is more virtualization friendly and effective than Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI). NVMe leverages not just solid-state storage (SSD) but also modern multicore CPUs.
-Support for Intel HDA audio card:
- Supports up to 8/2 channels (out/in), 192kHz sample rate and 32-bit samples
- Improved sound quality of VoIP phones
- Support for “jack sense”
-Automatic detection when the microphone is muted. If access to the Mac microphone is not allowed by the user or macOS preferences, Windows shows the microphone as muted.
-Automatic detection when sound output is disabled. If it is disabled in the virtual machine settings, Windows also shows sound output as disabled.
-Support for Bluetooth Low Energy. This allows you to use more devices, including Logitech Craft, IrisPEN and some IoT devices (such as smart home appliances and smart bands).
-Version of the Bluetooth driver is 4.0.
Convenience
-When reverting to a snapshot, Parallels Desktop offers to save the current VM state as a new snapshot.
-Though dragging and dropping images has been supported from the very beginning, some of the latest macOS screenshots cannot be simply dragged to Windows because of the new format. We have enhanced drag-and-drop functionality—now you can drag screenshot previews, images from Safari, Photos and other macOS applications and drop them to your Windows applications.
-Completely redesigned keyboard layouts support several improved aspects, including:
- Excel shortcuts Ctrl+ and Ctrl- are now supported
- Improved support for JIS keyboard
- Fixed input with CAPS LOCK on for most of non-English layouts
26 Ratings
Unable to upgrade via Lite
I used the 14 day trial to test this out, and was pretty impressed. It allows you to work seemlessly between mac and windows applications. I was impressed enough to upgrade to the annual subscription. This has not worked for me, and it appears that the only option is to purchase the full desktop package from the website, outside the app store. This is a more expensive product than quoted in the app, and means I need to manage the subscription separately.
Not very impressed, and still deciding whether I want the hassle.
I’m very supprised that I can not follow the upgrade model offered in the app, but from speaking to your online support there seems to be no way to resolve this issue.
Not very impressed, and still deciding whether I want the hassle.
I’m very supprised that I can not follow the upgrade model offered in the app, but from speaking to your online support there seems to be no way to resolve this issue.
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Developer Response,
Dear RichardGWood, Thank you very much for the review and please accept our apologies for the inconvenience you have had. Please drop us an email at [email protected] and our support will look into this for you. Thanks, Parallels Team
wow
Put this on my mac book pro. it initially says 234MB. Then you have to install windows which it says is a 4.4GB download. By the time its all set up its used 60GB. When youve got 80GB left on a 121GB drive, because of your mac operating system, this starts to cause problems.
The support consists of sending you nowhere and how to uninstall windows is either wrong or not current.
Have managed to uninstall all coponents now more by luck than support.
I bought a mac for a reason, what was i thinking putting windows on is.
This software may be very useful for some people and i can see the value of having two operating systems and in fairness it worked ok for the 2 hours i had it on, but every time i checked my hard disk space it had chewed up another GIG or so of memory.
The support consists of sending you nowhere and how to uninstall windows is either wrong or not current.
Have managed to uninstall all coponents now more by luck than support.
I bought a mac for a reason, what was i thinking putting windows on is.
This software may be very useful for some people and i can see the value of having two operating systems and in fairness it worked ok for the 2 hours i had it on, but every time i checked my hard disk space it had chewed up another GIG or so of memory.
Developer Response,
Hi baldrickxjr, I'm sorry to hear that. Please send me your email at [email protected] and I will connect you to our Support Team for further assistance.
Shame it now requires a subscription
I've been playing around with Ubuntu a bit, mostly for fun. Parallels Lite was decent for that when it was free, but, unless I fine a killer use for it before my year's free subscription is over, it's highly unlikely I'll want to pay a £74 per year subscription after that.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.