The Best Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac is the fastest, easiest and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac — without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of macOS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30+ utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots or download a video — all with a single click.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Operating System: 10.15 Catalina, 10.14 Mojave, 10.13 High Sierra
• Processor: 64-bit
• Memory: 4 GB
• Storage: 500 MB available space
• Additional Requirements:
  • Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor
  • 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 500 MB hard disk space + additional hard disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows 10)
  • SSD drive recommended for better performance
  • Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA graphics card
  • OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra or newer (optimized for macOS Catalina 10.15)
  • DirectX 11 requires at least macOS Mojave 10.14
  • Internet connection is required for product activation, updates, and select features
  • Supported Guest Operating Systems:
  • Windows 10 (recommended)
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list may work as well.

Parallels Desktop Pro 15 for Mac is the fastest, easiest and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac—without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of macOS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30Plus utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots or download a video—all with a single click.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Operating System: Mac OS X (All)
• Processor: 64-bit
• Memory: 4 GB
• Storage: 500 MB available space
• Additional Requirements: Any Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor. Mac operating system: macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.13 High Sierra or macOS 10.12 Sierra. W4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended). 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation. Additional disk space for virtual machines (SSD drives recommended for better performance). For example, for Windows 10 you need at least 16 GB of disk space. Note: If you don’t have Windows, Parallels Desktop can help you download and install Windows 10. Internet connection (for product activation, some features, etc.).

Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac is the fastest, easiest and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac—without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of macOS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30+ utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots or download a video—all with a single click.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Operating System: Mac OS X (All)
• Processor: 64-bit
• Memory: 4 GB
• Storage: 500 MB available space
• Additional Requirements: Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo or newer SSD recommended for better performance · Internet connection for product activation and select features. OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan or later (optimized for macOS 10.14 Mojave).

Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac—without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of macOS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows 10, Linux, and Google ChromeTM. Includes 30+ utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots, or download a video, all with a single click.

Parallels Desktop Pro 16 for Mac is the fastest, easiest and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac — without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of macOS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30+ utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots or download a video — all with a single click.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Operating System: 10.15 Catalina, 10.14 Mojave, 10.13 High Sierra
• Processor: 64-bit
• Memory: 4 GB
• Storage: 500 MB available space
• Additional Requirements:
  • Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor
  • 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 500 MB hard disk space + additional hard disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows 10)
  • SSD drive recommended for better performance
  • Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA graphics card
  • OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra or newer (optimized for macOS Catalina 10.15)
  • DirectX 11 requires at least macOS Mojave 10.14
  • Internet connection is required for product activation, updates, and select features
  • Supported Guest Operating Systems:
  • Windows 10 (recommended)
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list may work as well.

Parallels desktop 14 for Mac is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful application for running Windows on Mac-without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of Mac OS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30+ utilities to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots, or download a video, all with a single click.

Parallels desktop 14 for Mac is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful application for running Windows on mac-without rebooting. Get up and running in minutes. Easily switch between Mac and Windows applications. Keep the look and feel of Mac OS or use the familiar Windows desktop. Powerful performance lets you run the most demanding graphical applications without compromise. Quickly switch between a wide array of operating systems, including Windows and most Linux distributions. Includes 30+ UTILITIES to simplify everyday tasks on Mac and Windows: clean your drive, secure private files, take screenshots, or download a video, all with a single click.

Product Description

Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac is simply the #1 choice of customers worldwide to seamlessly run. Windows applications on a Mac without rebooting. Powerful performance lets you run day to day Windows productivity applications with ease. . Run even the most graphic intensive Windows programs and the most powerful cross platform Windows development tools side by side without compromise. Use Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Access, OneNote and other applications not available on the Mac. If you’re new to Mac, keep the familiar Windows experience on your Mac. If you love the Mac OS interface, make Windows invisible. Either way, run Windows and Mac applications side by side without compromising performance. Parallels Desktop 9 even brings Mac OS X features like Launchpad and Dictation to Windows apps and is compatible with OS X Mavericks(10.9), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), OS X Lion (10.7.5), OS X Lion (10.6.4), and OS X Snow Leopard(10.6.8). In addition to Windows 8, other OSs can also run in Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux, and Google Chrome OS. Sync iCloud, SkyDrive, Dropbox, etc., without unnecessary duplication of files locally. Worried about connecting to your network. Parallels Desktop also provides two modes for flexibility with different networking environments. No wonder Parallels Desktop has been the #1 solution for more than 7 years.

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Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac seamlessly runs Windows applications on a Mac without rebooting.

Powerful performance lets you run day-to-day Windows productivity applications — and even the most-demanding graphical apps — without compromise.

Use Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Access, OneNote and other applications not available on Mac. If you’re new to Mac, keep the familiar Windows experience on your Mac. If you love the Mac OS interface, make Windows invisible. Either way, run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side without compromising performance.

Parallels Desktop 9 even brings Mac OS X features like Launchpad and Dictation to Windows apps, and is compatible with OS X Mavericks (10.9), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), OS X Lion (10.7.5), OS X Lion (10.6.4) and OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8).

In addition to Windows 8, other OSs can also run in Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux, and Google Chrome OS. Parallels Desktop 9 is the fastest way to run the most graphic-intensive Windows programs and the most powerful cross-platform Windows development tools side-by-side.

Synch iCloud, SkyDrive, Dropbox, and more without unnecessary duplication of files locally. Worried about connecting to your network? Parallels Desktop also provides two modes for flexibility with different networking environments.

Perfect if you’re new to Mac

Start with the familiar look of Windows. Then add more and more of the Mac look, feel and experience to your Windows programs at your pace.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion support

Experience Mountain Lion’s amazing, intuitive features like Launchpad and Mission Control even while running Windows applications.

Versatile for home, home office and school

Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac enables one Mac to handle all of your computing needs. Run the PC programs your work or school requires and the Mac applications you love.

A must-have in the Mac-based business

An office full of Macs can still run the business-critical PC applications that you, your customers and your partners need.

Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac brings seamless integration on one computer

Whether you are a home user, a business professional, a student, a passionate gamer or your company plans to work with Mac or already has Mac, with Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac your Windows applications will run like they were made for Mac.

Ease of use, performance, reliability and stability

• Seamlessly run Windows and its applications side by side with Mac OS X and its applications on a single Mac.
• Full Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 support including Aero and Flip 3D support.
• Mac OX features, including Notification Center for Windows alerts, Dictation, gestures and Launchpad work in your Windows apps.
• Easily copy and paste and drag and drop formatted text and images between Windows and Mac.
• Presentation Wizard allows you to easily and beautifully show presentations from your Mac on any external monitor or projector.
• PowerNap Support for Retina Display Macs lets you update Windows and Windows applications while your computer sleeps.
• Switch from Safari to the same web page in Internet Explorer with a single click when you try to view a page that doesn’t show correctly.
• The new Security Wizard lets you easily access and install complimentary security software subscriptions to keep both your Mac and your Windows virtual machines safe from viruses, malware, etc.
• Use your iSight or FaceTime HD camera with your Windows applications.
• Multi-touch trackpad gestures that allow you to navigate through Windows applications like Mac applications.
• The Parallels Wizard protects your investment in Windows applications and files, moving everything quickly and easily.
• Choose up to 1GB of video memory for your most graphically intense Windows programs.
• Use a wide variety of design programs and games with DirectX 9.0c/9Ex and Shader Model 3 support and DirectX 10 support in many games.
• Use administrator tools to protect and secure virtual machines.
• Supports import of Boot Camp partition into a Parallels virtual machine.
• Suspend and resume Boot Camp virtual machines.
• Faster and smoother import of VMware and Virtual PC virtual machines.
• Unwind and enjoy your favorite music, games and video with 7.1 Surround Sound.

Windows 10 Pro includes all the features of Windows 10 Home, plus business functionality for encryption, remote log-in, creating virtual machines, and more. With Windows 10 Pro, you’ll always have the latest features and security. Experience faster start-ups, a familiar yet expanded Start menu, and great new ways to get stuff done.

Windows Ink
    Windows Ink lets you draw on pictures and videos in the Photos app to make them your own. With Windows Ink, you can draw on a 2D or 3D map in the Maps app and make it yours by creating routes with turn-by-turn directions, measuring the distance between any two points, adding notes, and marking places to visit.

Groove
    With Groove, you can upload music from your PC to OneDrive to play your own tunes and make a playlist once for all your devices.

360° Immersion
    With the Movies & TV app, you can explore immersive 360° video content from partners like GoPro, Baobab Studios, SLIVER.tv, LIFE VR, and NextVR.

Mini View
    The mini view feature lets you keep an ever-present small window on top of what you’re doing. This means you can do things like binge watch your favorite show, carry on a Skype conversation or control your music, regardless of what else you’re working on.

Night Light
    You can now lower the amount of blue light emitted from your PC at night with Night light.

Support
    The Creators Update enables immersive experiences that blur the lines between the physical and digital worlds. It enables developers to create exciting Windows Mixed Reality apps and experiences with Windows Mixed Reality dev kits.

Security
    The Windows Defender Security Center offers a single dashboard display, so you can control your security options from one place—everything from anti-virus, network, and firewall protection; to assessing your device performance and health; to security controls for your apps and browser; and to family safety options. For enterprise customers using the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service, the centralized portal first delivered in the Anniversary Update called the Windows Security Center will link to Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, via the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph, to allow IT administrators to easily follow an attack across endpoints and email in a seamless and integrated way.

Dynamic Lock
    Windows Hello can use any paired iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone to detect when you step away from your PC or tablet, automatically locking it behind you for an extra measure of security and privacy. This feature works with smartphones, fitness bands, or any device that’s paired to your PC or tablet.

Windows Defender ATP
    New actions and insights have been added in Windows Defender ATP to investigate and respond to network attacks, including sensors in memory, enriched intelligence, and new remediation actions.

Privacy Dashboard
    Microsoft’s privacy dashboard will let you see and manage your activity data across multiple services, as well as changes to how Windows 10 privacy settings will be designed and featured for customers.

New Setup Experience
    The Creators Update introduces a new setup experience for you to choose the settings that are right for you, simplifies Diagnostic data collection from three levels to two (Basic and Full), and further reduces the data collected at the Basic level.

Skype for Windows 10
    Skype was built for Windows 10 and includes exclusive features such as mini view, SMS relay for Windows Phone, and Skype Translator for calls to mobile phones and landlines. It is easy to use with keyboard shortcuts, conversation search, and a redesigned group video calling view that brings everyone even closer together. Be more productive on your PC and collaborate over Skype – share screens, photos, videos, documents, and files (up to 300MB). Say “hello” with an instant message, voice or video call, all for free, no matter what device you use Skype on.

Windows 10 Pro Features

Start Menu
    After its hiatus in Windows 8, the Start Menu has returned. Utilizing a combination of the traditional menu system and Windows 8’s Live Tiles, the improved Start Menu gives you more information at a glance, showing notification information alongside your applications and other pinned items.

Cortana
    Microsoft’s digital personal assistant, Cortana can answer your questions with information gleaned from both your device and the internet at large. You can type or even talk with her, if your system has a microphone. Using her Notebook, Cortana keeps track of your needs and wants, and she learns over time to improve her information gathering skills.

Microsoft Edge
    After nearly 20 years, Microsoft has finally replaced its Internet Explorer web browser. With Microsoft Edge, users can write directly on web pages and share notes with friends and colleagues. It also improves the online reading experience by adding a distraction-free mode and read-it-later functionality. Edge also has built-in Cortana integration; you can have her help you find a restaurant, make a reservation, and pull up directions without leaving your browser.

Windows Store
    For Windows 10, Microsoft has unified the Windows Store. Now, apps for PCs, tablets, and phones will all be accessible from one place. And with support for Universal Apps, one version of an app can work across all your compatible devices automatically.

Windows Continuum
    Windows 10 was designed for a variety of screen sizes and input styles, and with its Continuum feature, it automatically adapts to fit your needs. A Windows 10 tablet on its own requires a touch-centric approach, but attaching a mouse and keyboard will shift everything to a more traditional interface. You can even attach an external monitor to your Windows 10 phone for a near-desktop experience. But it’s not just the operating system; Windows Universal Apps take advantage of Continuum as well.

Xbox on Windows 10
    Gaming is a big focus of Windows 10. Xbox integration allows for PC players to match up against Xbox One players on supported games, and if you have an Xbox One, you can even stream compatible titles to your PC. Native support for recording with the new Game DVR feature makes it easy to capture and share your gameplay. The new DirectX12 takes better advantage of multi-core processors, giving games a performance boost, even on older hardware. Windows 10 also features native support for virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift.