This is partly due to the Rosetta 2 install time translation (or requested), but Apple doused the M1 with some of what I call “special sauce”-sly tricks that include support for x86 memory ordering, one of the main differences between Intel and ARM architectures. Windows in Parallels on M1 Mac runs faster than it does on Surface Pro X. It’s faster than my 2015 iMac with an Intel Core i7. Thanks to unified direct-access memory, integrated GPU cores, and cores dedicated to common tasks (such as H.265 video encoding), it’s fast as all get out.īut its most surprising trick is running x86/圆4 Mac apps at more than acceptable (if not quite native) speeds. Parallels Desktop is a fast and efficient way to run Windows 11 on Intel or M1 Mac computers. However, for the price, it doesn’t work THAT well. Definitely works well enough to do actual work on.
The tl dr version: it works And it works pretty well. Just in case this whole deal is new to you: Apple’s M1 is a system on a chip (SoC) based on the Advanced RISC Architecture/Reduced Instruction Set Computing/Instruction Set Architecture (ARM RISC ISA). This is such an interesting time to be a Parallels® customer: macOS Monterey release imminent, Windows 11 released on October 5 th, iOS and iPadOS 15 released, Parallels Desktop 16. A quick stream using Revit on the new MacBook Pro M1 Max with 64GB of RAM using Parallels 17. I’m guessing the company eventually will, given the rather upbeat moods of the participants I queried.
Alas, Windows on the Mac involves a slew of “ifs” and “maybes.” Primarily, there is no guarantee that Microsoft will acquiesce to make Windows 10 for ARM (the required OS) available to end-users.