Even on a large screen Mac, the icons in the Mac menu bar can take up more than half of the menu bar (Figure 1). Some of these icons are from Apple, and others are from applications I have installed on this...
Over its decades-long development, Parallels® Desktop has had many performance enhancements. But as the saying goes, “you can never have too much speed.” So, in this blog post I will show you how to...
As the expression goes, “May you live in interesting times.”
This is such an interesting time to be a Parallels® customer: macOS Monterey release imminent, Windows 11 released on...
Age of Empires, Overwatch and many other games play well.
On an M1 Mac, operating systems in Parallels® Desktop virtual machines must be ARM-based operating systems, and this has led to...
The Recognize Text tool is one of the new tools in Parallels® Toolbox 5.0, released on July 27, 2021. This tool “extracts” text from a photo or image. Even though Recognize Text has...
I have been using the new Recognize Text tool in Parallels® Toolbox 5.0 for about a month now. For me, it neatly solves a common problem: having to re-type the static text in a screenshot...
The Parallels® Desktop 17 system requirements for hardware, supported host and guest operating systems (OSs), are fully listed below. We encourage every potential or existing...
One of the first things I do when an OS that I am interested in releases a new beta version is to install it in a virtual machine (VM) in Parallels® Desktop for Mac. By definition, beta releases...
Update to post Nov 30, 2021: Parallels Desktop 17.1.1 or newer simplifies the setup experience for Windows 11 with automatic download and installation. The process is similar to the installation on Mac computers with Intel...
This post is part of a series to assist new users with OS virtualization on Parallels Desktop.
I admit it: running two or more operating systems at the same time seems kind of strange at...