anyone using Parallels?

[lifeinmono]

is it worth to spend sgd$160 for this software?

 

[davidktw]

is it worth to spend sgd$160 for this software?

If you work with virtual environments in Mac, then IMHO this is the best virtualisation solution in Mac right now. Next is Vmware Fusion. For quite a long while, Parallels Desktop has extremely good integration with the Mac OS, especially between Windows Guest and Mac OS X.

I work with both Windows and Linux virtual environments alot in my current Intel MBP, so yes, it will be worth it for me. If you want something working and doesn't mind the quality is moderately well and you don't work with virtual environments a lot and doesn't require tight integration, then Oracle's Virtualbox is also a possible solution.

Personally in terms of hypervisor solution in Mac OS X, I would rank them as follows Parallels Desktop > VMWare Fusion > Oracle VirtualBox.

I have worked with all 3 of them, and with Parallels Desktop the most across the most number of versions. Had tried with VMWare Fusion a couple of versions back, but they never got any better with Parallels Desktop in terms of performance and seamless integration. Nonetheless, the value of VMWare Fusion is that if someone give you a virtual image from VMWare Workstation/Player, you can easily open them in Mac. For Parallels Desktop, you will need to spend some time performing conversion which is not guaranteed to always work.

 

[ChaoMonkey]

If you work with virtual environments in Mac, then IMHO this is the best virtualisation solution in Mac right now. Next is Vmware Fusion. For quite a long while, Parallels Desktop has extremely good integration with the Mac OS, especially between Windows Guest and Mac OS X.

I work with both Windows and Linux virtual environments alot in my current Intel MBP, so yes, it will be worth it for me. If you want something working and doesn't mind the quality is moderately well and you don't work with virtual environments a lot and doesn't require tight integration, then Oracle's Virtualbox is also a possible solution.

Personally in terms of hypervisor solution in Mac OS X, I would rank them as follows Parallels Desktop > VMWare Fusion > Oracle VirtualBox.

I have worked with all 3 of them, and with Parallels Desktop the most across the most number of versions. Had tried with VMWare Fusion a couple of versions back, but they never got any better with Parallels Desktop in terms of performance and seamless integration. Nonetheless, the value of VMWare Fusion is that if someone give you a virtual image from VMWare Workstation/Player, you can easily open them in Mac. For Parallels Desktop, you will need to spend some time performing conversion which is not guaranteed to always work.

Was about to ask questions between Parallels vs VMWare and you've answered everything!

Always can count on davidktw on IT.

 

[lifeinmono]

If you work with virtual environments in Mac, then IMHO this is the best virtualisation solution in Mac right now. Next is Vmware Fusion. For quite a long while, Parallels Desktop has extremely good integration with the Mac OS, especially between Windows Guest and Mac OS X.

I work with both Windows and Linux virtual environments alot in my current Intel MBP, so yes, it will be worth it for me. If you want something working and doesn't mind the quality is moderately well and you don't work with virtual environments a lot and doesn't require tight integration, then Oracle's Virtualbox is also a possible solution.

Personally in terms of hypervisor solution in Mac OS X, I would rank them as follows Parallels Desktop > VMWare Fusion > Oracle VirtualBox.

I have worked with all 3 of them, and with Parallels Desktop the most across the most number of versions. Had tried with VMWare Fusion a couple of versions back, but they never got any better with Parallels Desktop in terms of performance and seamless integration. Nonetheless, the value of VMWare Fusion is that if someone give you a virtual image from VMWare Workstation/Player, you can easily open them in Mac. For Parallels Desktop, you will need to spend some time performing conversion which is not guaranteed to always work.

thank you very the much for the reply.

the speed in parallels is second to none, and the stability running w11 arm in m1 is a beast walking in the park.
however, its the cost that is stopping me. =\

lastly, my concern is the timeline the producer launch the next version.

I'm contemplating getting subscription basis one versus 1-time payment.

reason behind the contemplation is due to security and vulnerability mainly.

 

[davidktw]

thank you very the much for the reply.

the speed in parallels is second to none, and the stability running w11 arm in m1 is a beast walking in the park.
however, its the cost that is stopping me. =\

lastly, my concern is the timeline the producer launch the next version.

I'm contemplating getting subscription basis one versus 1-time payment.

reason behind the contemplation is due to security and vulnerability mainly.

I recommend the subscription based. If you are using M1 chipset, i foresee there will still
a lot of optimisation forthcoming. The subscription should be be a better choice, even if you calculate annually.

Unless you really think you wouldn’t be upgrading the software, which I highly doubt that.

My experience with PD is it gets updated often across the years of my Pro subscription with them.

There are some limitations with the standard version, but if you don’t feel you need the pro features, feel free to go with the standard version.

 

[davidktw]

Was about to ask questions between Parallels vs VMWare and you've answered everything!

Always can count on davidktw on IT.

Just sharing what I know, don’t know everything myself

 

[lifeinmono]

thanks for sharing this valuable input.
guess I bought the 'one-time payment' version with vpn in Brazil, plus discount. cheap!

 

[Jirachi]

is it worth to spend sgd$160 for this software?

I guess you could wait for Black Friday sales.

 

[lifeinmono]

When is black Friday sales? Hehe

 

[odyas]

Running Win 11 arm beta in parallel, almost no games can be installed and played. Any good suggestion? Fusion?

 

[Ye_Rongtian]

Is Parallel working good with the base spec of M1 chip?

 

[knave]

Depends on what you intend to run on it?

 

[wahkau]

Can buy upgrade without new license? N reliable to buy from Shopee?

 

[{jarvis}]

Running Win 11 arm beta in parallel, almost no games can be installed and played. Any good suggestion? Fusion?

how about trying with the full version of windows 11 instead of the arm? or maybe can try crossover?

 

[odyas]

how about trying with the full version of windows 11 instead of the arm? or maybe can try crossover?

For arms Mac, you can only install arms version of Windows inside Parallels.