Parallels Desktop 15: 10 Features in 10 Minutes (OK, more like 8 minutes!)

I spent most of August traveling around Asia and presenting demonstrations of Parallels Desktop® for Mac and the latest features to various audiences, including technical press, bloggers and Parallels partners.

The new Parallels Desktop features that received the most positive reaction? The conversion to Metal and support for DirectX 11 in Windows. Also well received was the ability to play Xbox games in Windows 10 and support for Sidecar in macOS® Catalina. Overall, the reaction to the new release was extremely positive, and the press noted that the Parallels Engineering team had focused on new features that would truly be useful to end users.

In every one of these presentations, I did a 20-minute live demo of Parallels Desktop 15 and Parallels Toolbox 3.6 running on my MacBook Pro® with macOS Catalina beta, and my iPad Pro® running iPadOS™ beta.

I condensed this 20-minute demo into an 8-minute video, which you can see below. I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed crafting it.

Parallels Features — Figure 1_Kurt on Parallels Desktop press tour in Asia

Let us know in the comments if you’ve upgraded to macOS Catalina and Parallels Desktop 15 and how these are working out for you.

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5 comments on “Parallels Desktop 15: 10 Features in 10 Minutes (OK, more like 8 minutes!)”

tee jay
December 13, 2019 at 5:19 pm

touchscreen support on external monitor ?
Kayla Myrhow
December 16, 2019 at 11:12 am

Hey there! If your device is a touchscreen, then yes. We’ve seen users have success with both iOS and Android devices. Wacom (or other brands) of drawing tablets work quite well, too. Connect with us directly! Facebook https://www.messenger.com/t/ParallelsInc, Twitter https://twitter.com/ParallelsCares or any other of our support channels: http://www.parallels.com/support/. Thanks, Kayla, Audience Marketing Manager.
tee jay
December 16, 2019 at 6:49 pm

how do i make my touch screen external monitor work with Parallels thru the imac?
Lyz
February 12, 2020 at 12:27 pm

Hi, I thinking of getting parallels and I having been looking to see how well, PC only games play. I really want to get Planet Zoo, but I have found no information on if it would even work on Parallels. I have a 2019 macbook pro. I know this is probably not where I’m suppose to ask this but I couldn’t find anywhere else to put it.
Beatrice Vogel
February 17, 2020 at 3:08 am

Hey Lyz, Thanks for reaching out. There are around 200,000 Windows apps that work with Parallels Desktop but we haven’t tested all of them. I suggest that you first install a trial version for 14 days and test if everything works the way you want to: http://www.parallels.com/try/pd. Any further questions let us know. Thanks 🙂