Parallels also has a mode they call convergence i think? It hides the Windows desktop and task bar. What you copy on the Mac will paste on windows (so I copy my Steam password from 1Password in the menubar of the Mac, and paste it into Steam running in the Windows VM. They keyboard maps, so cmd-C copies on windows as well as ctrl-C. They make the Mac drives available to the Windows VMs, and you can browse the contents of the VM‘s drives from the Mac, so you can read and write between the two. Fortunately I’ve not found that with the apps I’ve tried so far. Although, I guess there may be some specific software that won’t run on ARM Windows. It was a bit flaky to start with, but has been pretty good for the past couple of months. Going to be interesting to see what the performance on the M1 Max in the Studio is like with Parallels. Admittedly I haven’t tried any AAA games on there, but windows itself is smooth to use and I’ve had several virtual Windows sessions all running concurrently, and being able to easily switch back and forth between the Mac and Windows app, sharing the clipboards, it _almost_ made Windows enjoyable to use It was alright for work related tasks, and could just about run old games like the early Dawn of War games, but any recent games were unplayable really.īut using Parallels on the M1 chip has been great. I’ve previously run Windows on my 2015 i7 iMac via BootCamp - windows gets to run natively on the processor without being slowed down by virtualisation. I’ve been using Parallels to run Win10 and Win11 virtual machines on my 13” M1 MBP and I’ve been very impressed. Parallels specifically worked on their latest version to be compatible with the M1 chips and with Windows11. Use a virtual windows, via something like Parallels.
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