macOS Sierra and Parallels Desktop
With every new release from Apple, Parallels Desktop consistently builds a better product for customers. With macOS Sierra’s release, we wanted to touch base and provide some peace of mind. Simply put: we’ve got you covered. Our engineers have been hard at work since they got their hands on the developer’s release!
Upgrading to macOS Sierra provides huge benefits that make your Mac even more useful and fun while ensuring that you have the latest security features and performance enhancements. Here are two more reasons to upgrade: It’s free and easy!
MacOS Sierra, Yosemite, and Lion running in Parallels Desktop 14 under Mojave. Samuel Axon Last year, Parallels added Touch Bar support for Windows applications. Parallels Toolbox for Mac Parallels Toolbox for Mac makes it easy to perform dozens of essential daily tasks on your Mac–at the low price of a single app. Take screenshots, secure private files with a password, convert Facebook or YouTube videos, and much more. Parallels Toolbox for Mac and Windows 30+ tools in a lightweight, powerful, all-in-one application for Mac ® and PC. Easy to use and economical—a whole suite of tools for a fraction of the cost of individual apps, packaged in one simple interface.
What are we most excited for with macOS Sierra?
Siri: Our favorite virtual assistant makes her debut on Mac. No matter what you’re doing, Siri is always available to help you become a multi-tasking pro.
Universal Clipboard: Copying from one device and pasting on another? It may be 2016 with technological advances progressing faster than light speed, but this is easily one of the best upcoming features for macOS Sierra and iOS users.
Optimized Storage: Is your hard drive filling up or maxed out? macOS Sierra can automatically store rarely used files in iCloud and keep them available on demand. Additionally, think of all those old files you no longer use. Find and remove them with ease so you have room for new ones.
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Auto-Unlock with your Apple Watch: Rockin’ an Apple Watch keeps getting cooler. Automatically log into your Mac when you’re wearing your Apple Watch. No typing. No password required. Seriously awesome.
It’s hard to narrow down our favorites when Apple releases a feature-packed update such as macOS Sierra. Here are some helpful tips before you update:
Make sure your Mac can run macOS Sierra! Chances are your hardware can handle it; Mac computers introduced in late 2009 or later can be upgraded to macOS Sierra. Still worried? Check your Mac hardware here.
We strongly recommend that you backup your Mac before any major upgrades! Whether you choose Time Machine or a manual backup, you can save yourself a serious headache by planning ahead.
We hope you enjoy macOS Sierra and look forward to seeing the incredible projects our customers share with us!
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A new version of Mac-based virtualization software Parallels Desktop was released today. Parallels Desktop 14 offers disk space efficiency improvements, faster application-launch speeds, macOS Mojave support, expanded Touch Bar support, better OpenGL graphics performance, and several other improvements.
Most people who use Parallels use it to run Windows within macOS, and the updates focus on that by improving performance and adding new features to make the two operating systems work more seamlessly together.The key feature the Parallels team is pushing for this release is storage optimization. Virtual machines can take up a lot of space, and that can be a problem when you're working with limited solid-state storage in modern MacBooks. This release claims to free up significant disk space in most (but not all) cases—up to 20GB in some situations. There's also a 'Free Up Disk Space' feature that will, in some cases, make it easier to pinpoint where you can achieve some savings. Some of the general space savings come from more efficient compression for states saved with the Snapshots feature.
Parallels Desktop 14 also brings improved graphics performance in certain Windows applications, using the multi-platform OpenGL graphics API. Of course, Apple announced at its developer conference in June that OpenGL will be deprecated in macOS, with Apple's own Metal graphics API the only supported path going forward. When we asked a Parallels developer about this, he told us that OpenGL still works for the immediately foreseeable future but that the Parallels team is working on future solutions involving Metal.
Parallels For Mac Help
Last year, Parallels added Touch Bar support for Windows applications. That is greatly expanded in Parallels Desktop 14. New applications are now supported out of the box, including:
- Microsoft Visio and OneNote
- SketchUp
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- Quicken
- QuickBooks
- Visual Studio
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Parallels includes a tool for creating custom Touch Bar layouts for Windows applications that are not already supported; this release makes that particularly powerful with an XML authoring feature.
Other features include shared camera support for cameras with up to 4K resolution, Microsoft Ink support for Microsoft Office with pressure-sensitivity support in some applications, faster boot times and application launch speeds, faster suspend operations on APFS partitions, significantly improved performance on the iMac Pro with AVX-512, and small UX improvements like progress bars in the dock for Windows applications.
Parallels Desktop 14 is available now with an annual subscription starting at $79.99 or a perpetual license at $99.99. The Pro and Business editions will set you back a bit more, though—$99.99 per year.