Parallels has released Desktop 16.5 for Mac with full support for M1 Macs, promising 'native speeds' for the virtual machine when you're running Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview. You can run Linux.
Your personal account at Parallels: manage your Parallels product licenses, get technical support, ask questions on the Parallels product forums. Login - Parallels My Account By using this site you agree to cookies being used as set in our Cookie Policy Got It. Virtualization software Parallels announced today that it has released Parallels 16.5 which is officially compatible with M1 chip Macs. Question: Does Parallels Desktop for Mac support Mac computers with the Apple M1 chip? Answer: With macOS Big Sur and the new Mac computers with Apple M1 chip becoming available, we will continue to do more extensive evaluations, both in our lab and with your help via the Parallels Technical Preview Program. With Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Mac, users can not only run Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview in a virtual machine on M1 Mac computers but also Linux distributives Ubuntu 20.04, Kali Linux 2021.1, Debian 10.7 and Fedora Workstation 33-1.2.
You now have a reliable and quick way to run Windows 10 on an M1-based Mac — provided you're willing to make some tradeoffs. Parallels has released Desktop 16.5 for Mac with full support for M1 Macs, promising 'native speeds' for the virtual machine when you're running Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview. You can run Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, too.
In some cases, the M1 could perform better than a theoretically more powerful Intel-native setup. Parallels claims you'll get up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance on an M1 Mac than you would an Intel-based MacBook Pro with a Radeon Pro 555X GPU, and 30 percent better virtual machine performance compared to an even higher-specced Intel MacBook Pro. The company even says power consumption on an M1 MacBook Air should improve by 250 percent, although it's comparing that to a 2019 MacBook Air (as its footnotes indicate) and not the last Intel model.
© Parallels/Corel Windows 10 for ARM running in Parallels Desktop on Apple M1 MacBook ProWill Parallels Run With M1 Chip
As we hinted earlier, though, you'll have to make some compromises. An Insider Preview by its nature isn't stable. You might run into crashes or glitches. And while Windows 10 for ARM does emulate 64-bit x86 apps, you'll only get that vaunted performance with the smaller number of ARM-native Windows programs. Don't expect a favorite game or a must-run productivity tool to perform as well as it would on a comparable x86 PC.
This still makes many Windows apps available, though, and it's a considerably more elegant (not to mention more universal) solution than CrossOver's emulation-on-emulation approach. Think of Parallels as a crutch that could save you from keeping a Windows PC (or an Intel Mac) around just to run legacy software.
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