Parallels Desktop 16 Supports macOS Big Sur and Smoother PC 3D Graphics (venturebeat.com) 29
As Apple's Mac computers begin their two-year transition from Intel- to Apple-developed CPUs later this year, one feature that's going away is Boot Camp -- the Mac's ability to boot directly into Windows and run PC apps natively. But Corel's Parallels Desktop will still be there to let Mac users run Windows, and in this year's version 16, it will thankfully be faster, more compatible, and easier to use than ever. From a report: Like Parallels Desktop 15, version 16 is an emulator that allows users to load a complete operating system or individual apps within macOS, treating them as windows within the Mac environment. Once again, high-end Business, mid-range Pro, and regular Standard versions are available. With the latest Business version of Parallels Desktop, an IT department can create, deploy, and remotely manage a profile-customized Windows system that Mac users download in a compact file size and expand on their own machines. A simpler Pro version includes the file-compacting feature used to more easily transfer virtual machines between computers, achieving as much as 20 times compression for Linux installs and 75% faster Linux git status executions. The standard version includes a manual Free Up Disk Space feature with archiving and space reclaiming options.
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A virtual machine emulates a physical machine. Last time around Rosetta wasn't an "emulator" because it was a "compiler" and now a virtual machine isn't an emulator either. Perhaps people should learn what "emulator" really means. Hell, it's not even the worst part of that terrible sentence.
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I have to agree, the margin is thin. Qemu can even emulate an x86 on older hardware that doesn't have the intel/amd CPU virtualisation flags. Same for older versions of VMWare which used to compile a linux module to run even if you didn't have the virtualisation flags on your CPU.
Kvm needs the virtualisation flags on your CPU in order to load and run but you can still run your VM without kvm with qemu, it will just be slower since it will be fully emulated, just like older VMWare version before intel and am
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Most of what people call an "emulator", like for playing Game Boy Color games on your PC, is what we call a "simulator" where the technology finds daily commercial application.
Whatever your assumptions on the definition of the word, I can find an established usage that is contrary to it. No sense in getting your feathers ruffled over it.
CO$T (Score:1)
Yeah because I so can't wait to drop $100 or so for something previously built in to the system. At the very least this better be 100X faster than VirtualBox.
Re: CO$T (Score:2)
Re: CO$T (Score:2)
Parallels is 500x better than VBox
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Re: Corel? (Score:1)
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Kill Coherence (Score:1)
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Parallels Desktop 16 is installed by default?
You can't remove it from the /Applications/ folder??
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It also looks like it interferes with the keyboard driver, enabling and disabling Caps Lock at random. Also, sometimes, the layout changes to one that writes " fucking " when you press the space bar.
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No option to enable full screen view or full desktop view on the VM? That would be highly unusual.
And I'm sure you can disable it permanently since it would require cooperation with Windows, as in it does tricks with the display driver, so installing a generic display driver on the VM would do as well. Or just not installing the guest VM tools, after all if you're researching malware, you shouldn't be doing that anyways as practically all malware checks for VM tools in order to disable themselves.
Hell, thos
Boot off USB external drive? (Score:1)
Convoluted Summary (Score:1)
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The latter. No word yet on whether the former will be a thing, but there's nothing technical stopping it from happening. After all, Microsoft already has an ARM-native version of Windows 10—unsurprisingly named "Windows 10 on ARM"—that by all accounts is halfway decent. Using an emulation layer to provide backwards compatibility with x86 apps, it's intended to be a "full" version of Windows, rather than an update on its vastly inferior predecessor, the now-discontinued Windows RT.
So what's the h
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Apple doesn't understand why people might want to install Windows because they institutionally fail to grok gamers or the needs of cross-platform developers who work on products outside of the Apple bubble
Yeahrightsure.
That's why Apple developed and has offered for over a decade, BootCamp, which is specifically designed to allow Intel Mac users to natively Boot Windows.
Spew your ignorant Hater shit sonewhere else, willya?
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Apple doesn't understand why people might want to install Windows because they institutionally fail to grok gamers or the needs of cross-platform developers who work on products outside of the Apple bubble
That's why Apple developed and has offered for over a decade, BootCamp, which is specifically designed to allow Intel Mac users to natively Boot Windows.
Spew your ignorant Hater shit sonewhere else, willya?
Hate to break it to you, but my very first computer was a Mac Classic. Then an Apple Performa 400, a PowerMac G3, an iMac G4, a Ti PowerBook G4, an Al PowerBook G4, two or three Mac Minis, and now a souped-up MacBook Pro, with a hand-me-down MacBook Air picked up at some point along the way. Phones are the same story: after two dumb phones, everything else has been iPhones. Tablets? I've only ever owned iPads.
In fact, other than the Macs I've had running Boot Camp—sometimes for months at a time—
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Most of the Mac's lifetime has been on architectures different than what Windows would run on. First 68k, then PowerPC, x86 for the past 15 odd years, and now ARM. Macs only had the ability to "natively" run Windows for a few years, even though they have been running Microsoft OSes since the late 80s. Eith
Wow (Score:2)
One of the more blatant Slashvertisements I’ve seen in a while...
Biggest problem with Parallels (Score:2)
It is a halfway decent product but my biggest bitch with them is that every year they demand another payment to upgrade. Usually $49.99 to $60 Having Windows and Ubuntu VMs on my Mac rather than a separate system is a big time/cost saver for me so I end up paying (expense) it but I hate being hassled to pay for upgrades.