Parallels Desktop For Mac Reviews & Product Details

Parallels lets you have an isolated or invisible virtual PC for lighter-weight tasks that you just don't want to reboot your Mac (or switch devices) to accomplish.

Setup can be a bit guess and check, mostly for system specs to strike a good balance between giving your virtual PC the oomph it needs without tanking the Mac because you aren't leaving enough processing power behind.

Not investing in more than one piece of hardware for basic PC only tasks. It also saves time because no reboot is required like you need for BootCamp.

seamless integration with the platforms. coherence mode all the way

i have found nothing that i dislike about this product

running windown programs on an apple, thats what this is all about

Its internet speed And Compeletly same as original desktop

Pretty much i like It Very much only thing that distrubing is it get lag of your internet is slow

It is providing me Mac Place and i dont need to buy a whole mac

The ability to effortlessly switch to a Windows app on my Mac greatly increases my productivity.

There seems to be a large number of upgrades required to keep current.

Utilizing Windows only apps without having to switch from a Mac to a Windows PC.

Parallels for Mac allows me to easily run window on my computer, giving me the flexibility to run a huge range of applications across both Mac and Windows one device. It was easy to set up using the built-in installer and has been updated throughout the past few years with new features. Once Windows has booted up, I am able to access files saved from both my Mac partition and my Windows partition at the same time, through the Windows operating system in Parallels. This makes it really easy for me to work across multiple documents between the 2 operating systems quickly and easily. In my set-up, the bootable software for Windows is run through an external hard-drive, which was easy to set up using the Parallels guidance information. This gives me the flexibility to have both operating systems available without the requirement to partition a large part of my Mac's internal memory.

It’s very CPU intensive which can rapidly degrade battery life. It can sometimes lag when used on older Macs, but this is not very often. The programme sometimes sufferers from network connectivity issues which means that the Windows emulator can not connect to the internet or other internet-connected devices, such as wireless printers and other devices on the same shared network.

I’m able to run a set of software designed only for Windows PC, but on my Mac. This gives me a huge flexibility and also has saved dramatically on the hardware costs of not needing to own 2 separate computers with separate operating systems.

I like that Parallels gives me access to Windows-based software (in particular WordPerfect) for which there is no Mac version.

No strong dislikes, but the interface could be a little more user-friendly.

When I took my current job, the employer used WordPerfect and I was already a dedicated Mac user. My techy brother told me about Parallels and I've never looked back. Three Mac laptops later and I'm still a dedicated user.

Fast and flawless use of Windows applications, switching between Mac and Windows

License model that requires to purchase annual subscriptions after expiration.

I required native support for Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel) and Parallels was a perfect solution - I can create presentations and spreadsheets like on a native Windows machine.

The best part is being able to run Windows on my Mac very easily and fast, and I can keep it in my dock like any other app. It doesn't lag at all and works great!

Sometimes when you want to update the software, the App gets wonky, very slow, and once I had to delete the whole thing and download it again, because it froze in blue for some reason. Maybe a bit unstable on that end.

I was having to go back and forth from Mac to a PC every single day, for one single process on Powershell. This was taking too much time, and Powershell (with the execution command) does not run on Mac. So the fastest and most efficient solution was to acquire Parallels Desktop to be able to run Windows on my Mac and run Powershell just like any other app. sooo much faster than the PC, too.

Starting fast, simple interface, easy to add a new virtual machine (and they have ready-to-use images for many free OS). Great performance as well.

Takes too much disk space, as Mac laptops do not have much of it. By default is made for people who will use it every day, and it takes some tweaks to make it convenient for rare use.

Very convenient for testing web applications for Windows browsers (as they work sometimes differently than Mac's). So it helps to quickly identify and remove bugs.

I like how Parallels Desktop allows me to run any version of Windows I install on it, but without having to necessarily boot my laptop in order to access it. Hence the name, Parallels. It runs parallel to your regular Mac OS, on a different Desktop so you can just switch from whatever you're working on your Mac environment to a Windows based environment with just a swipe of your fingers on the trackpad.

I find my macbook constantly running on a LOT of memory when Parallel is running. While I understand it is running a completely different and isolated OS on the side, the fan goes off like crazy as it is consuming tons of memory.

I installed Parallels basically to use my macbook as a gaming laptop on my free time, so this is perfect for me because I can play a game and keep my regular processes running on the side. I found that some of the apps that I use for work I can use on the windows environment too so I can just minimize my game and get back to work whenever.