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Posted on 03/25/2022 11:39:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Who’s funnier—Siri or Cortana? It may be a contest you’ll never be able to judge as your allegiance lies with Mac. But by installing Parallels PC on that Mac of yours, you can run most Windows apps, setting the stage for a voice assistant joke-off.
If you’re a tried and true Mac user, from your iPhone to your MacBook, from your iPad to your Apple Watch, we know that switching operating systems is not likely in your cards. But it does seem that there are some applications that just run better, or are only available using Windows. Popular programs such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Quickbooks, Internet Explorer, and so many more can now easily be run on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini, or Mac Pro thanks to this emulation software.
Trusted by more than 7 million users and praised by experts, Parallels PC is easy to install and allows you to effortlessly run more than 200,000 Windows apps on your Mac without rebooting or slowing down your computer. You can run both operating systems side-by-side and even share files and folder, copy and paste images and text, and drag and drop files and content between the two of them.
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I have had bad luck with WINE, and the comments I have read are that it is too buggy for File Maker to trust.
Thanks for that info - I’ve had mixed results with WINE myself, so am not surprised. But I was curious, so had to ask.
may be an answer to sweep
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Parallels works just fine when you have an Intel chip. It runs about 98% of what it would on a machine formatted and ran as a Windows machine of the same caliber hardware
However, it does NOT run x86 Windows, what we are most familiar with. The new M1 will allegedly run a ARM version of Windows; which is largely not supported by many of the applications found on Windows
To call this misleading is an understatement. Now, the M1 is remarkably fast; but if you expect to run Win10 or Win11 on it; it’s not going to work
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One of the many reasons I have purchased only Mac hardware the past 15+ years is that I can run every other operating system I need to run, on MacOS using VMware, and they all run well. MacOS is a largely trouble-free platform itself, and as a host OS for the others.
VirtualBox is well reputed; many of the engineers I work with use it. Some use Parallels, though not as many, at least those I know. I'm sure that's fine too.
These days I wouldn't touch WINE with a 10-ft pole unless I was gaming, maybe.
My work-from-home environment is 95% Linux, which is an Ubuntu 20.04 VM on my work MacBook Pro. Runs like a champ, rarely any hiccups and those are usually my ISP's fault.
I haven't migrated to M1 hardware yet, as I have no compelling reason to do so, and it would break certain critical functions (until they catch up).
All for now.... take care, my FRiend.
I run Parallels on a 2015 MacBook Pro and it works well for my purposes, primarily to let me use peripherals which are not supported by current drivers or application software ( ScanSoft / Toshiba scanners ) ; software which only works on older or newer MacOS levels ( TurboTax ); and security / experimental sandboxes.
As for the specific statement about running MFS, just for S&G I put Microsoft XP Pro on my Macbook and ran Microsoft Combat flight simulator with an old USB joystick. Combat Flight Simulation runs as fast as it ever did, works the same as far as I can tell / remember. And still running everything else.
What I dont like is MacOS insists on using up your user partition with swap and icloud cache. So I no longer feel,Macs “just work”, but they are still preferable to Linux and Windows, for most things, to me. But Parallels is pretty good. And MacOS is pretty good too, being a flavor of Unix with a gui on top if you need that sort of thing beyond Xwindows.
In reply to a comment about paying for Windows licenses, Parallels’ company must have made a deal with Microsoft, there is no charge to create a VM of several Microsoft levels and canned Linux distros are available too. ( Perhaps not for commercial use, checknfor your use case).
For those folks that say M1 emulation will never be able to run the x86 ISA at comparable speed, actually eventually that is possible and I might make the bet that will in a few years. Server processor vendors dont just satisfy themselves with running lots of lines of code to emulate an instruction. They start off doing that, profile as it runs, do a flow analysis, and swap in native instructions replacing branch displacements, etc. It helps them compete and replace the competitive ISA. They would share emulator IP to take hw market share. And the ARM processors have more IPS and definitely more threads, to bring to bear to execute the workload. 7-10 years ago IBM had software that did it well enough to let their cloud hardware servers host x86 VMs. IOW you are paying for an intel VM from a cloud server provider but it really isnt running on intel hardware, the hypervisor could provision IBM POWER arch hosts, Intel, or probably ARM.
Parallels is easier to use than VMWare if you are on a mac, but does not easily make portable VM snapshots etc, and it costs over $Biden 100 / year per physical Mac you host it on.
Apple is thinking of leasing you the computer.
You will not own it but rent it.
To be clear, Parallels does NOT let you run Intel/AMD x86 operating systems on new Apple Silicon based Macs.
It will allow you to run ARM64 operating systems on new Macs, including Windows, if you can figure out how to legally get it (it isn’t for retail sale yet), and Microsoft doesn’t pull the rug out from everybody by not making it available for sale.
“And no, in true FReeper fashion, I have not clicked thru and read the article.”
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Trying to get WINE to run, and even configure it to open files, can be a problem depending on the universe of distros. Would not install right on Kubuntu, or work with PCLinuxOS for me.
And then some posters get upset with my exhortation to post 300 words in articles that must be excerpted, with at least 100 that will be seen in the excerpt on the articles page, which saves time with 250 on each page (if you so set it).
Good point.
True but who cares— we have brains to get around Bill Gate’s lifetime of Patchwork roads built of asphalt over sand— patch patch patch.
There are much smarter people aside from the lazy corporatists who continue to support... Windows 11,12 15===to infinity!
So, they are getting cracking on the subject you mentioned. Workarounds. Bankrupt WindowsMicrosoft and especially the pervo Bill Gates- whose days are numbered.
I’m reading and writing this on my 27 inch iMac (bought new Nov. 2021) with BootCamp and intel chip running Win10 and MS Office Pro Plus 2021. I use Win10 to run Dragon Naturally Speaking (it runs better than on the MacOS), create and edit reports, and to do a few games. I knew the M1 chip was coming and wouldn’t easily do Windows, so I went ahead and got this new machine. It has 10 cores, oodles of RAM and vRAM, and a 4Tb SSD, so it’s really fast. On the Mac side, there aren’t a lot of 64-bit games yet, so I lost out on running a few of my favs (so far), but I don’t do much gaming. I do my taxes, billing, and email mostly on the Mac side and Dragon and reports on the Win10 side. I have no interest in Win11. So, each to his own taste.
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