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Upgrades for existing Parallels Desktop 10 and 11 for Mac perpetual license customers are $49.99, with an introductory offer to upgrade to a Parallels Desktop Pro Edition subscription for $49.99 per year for life. The recommended retail price (RRP) of Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac is $79.99. The basic pricing details for the standard and Pro versions are summarized as follows. Performance testing isn’t part of a Quick Look review, but Parallels tends not to exaggerate these kinds of claims. the suspension of VMs is claimed to be 60 percent faster. The most notable performance improvement is in the creation of snapshots, described at 90 percent faster.

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To assist with this, PD12 includes a utility to help.Īll Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac customers will receive a one-year subscription to an industry-leading backup solution from Acronis True Image, which includes a fast incremental backup feature that reduces the time and size of subsequent backups and provides up to 500 GB of free online storage. A minor change to a VM can result in Time Machine backing up the entire VM file every hour, and that will chew up disk space in a hurry. Run multiple OS X/macOS VMs on El Capitan.įinally, experienced Mac users know not to include their folder of VMs in Time Machine’s list. That way, you can check out this new macOS as a beta to see what you think. One nice thing you can do, which is licensed by Apple, is to run macOS Sierra as a guest OS as a VM in El Capitan. That also allows Windows apps to launch just about immediately. As part of that, there’s an option to have Windows always running in the background. PD12 can arrange to have these updates done at a more convenient time. This can take a long time, and it’s not a happy experience when one is eager to shut Windows down as a bad thunderstorm approaches. One of the great annoyances of Windows is its annoying insistence on applying updates when you want to shut down. There’s a 14-day free trial, so user’s can check it out. To make it tempting, Parallels is planning for updates every few months. This feature is available by subscription for $9.99/year, so experienced users will want to ponder its utility. This may seem like a trivial addition, but I think it’s a helpful addition for novice users who just want to run Windows on their Macs but aren’t experts in operational nuances. The Toolbox is automatically added in the menu bar, and if you Quit the Toolbox, it will leave the menu bar. For example, take a screenshot of a VM’s window or area. Once installed, you can accomplish 20 various tasks with just a click. It’s installed from the app’s Preferences. This is (an expandable) set of tools in the form of clickable icons that make life easier. One of the most touted features of PD12 is the Parallels Toolbox. Manage VM resources on the fly (Pro version).Network manager/conditioner (Pro version).Integration of Windows internet passwords to Mac keychain.

Run Windows app without waiting for Windows VM to boot.Invocation of Sierra Storage Optimization to display VM storage.macOS Sierra as guest VM on OS X El Capitan host.Schedule/Defer Windows maintenance tasks.Parallels Toolbox for common tasks (New).Performance improvement in suspend, snapshots (checkpoints).Incremental backup pf VM files via Acronis True Image.The company has never failed to make it worthwhile. If you are a regular user of Parallels Desktop for the Mac, it’s just about a no-brainer to upgrade every year. Presented here is a summary of notable items. PD12 has many new features, but I won’t go into all of them in detail in this Quick Look review.

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App also directs user to Windows 10 ISO download site if license in hand.

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If you already purchased a license, you can install a Windows 10 version from a downloaded ISO file.

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To be sure, the app only directs you to the Windows store where you will pay US$119.99 for Windows 10 Home or $199.99 for Windows 10 Pro. The New… menu allows the installation of Windows 10 or popular Linux distributions. Perhaps, from an average user’s standpoint, the most welcome new feature is the ability to purchase the latest version of Windows from within the Parallels Desktop 12 (PD12) app. And while the new features seem to be fairly modest on the surface, they always seem to strike the right balance and give customers what they’ve been asking for.

This has been an annual tradition with Parallels, and each new version brings a host of new features and performance improvements. On August 18th, Parallels updated its Parallels Desktop to version 12.

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