Parallel Tools will also reinstall so wait for completion. And once it is completed you are good to use your Windows 10 on M1 Mac. In the coming months, we could see future Parallels Desktop update with full support. So, stay tuned for more news and guides on M1 Macs. So, there you have it the complete guide on how to run Windows 10 on Mac M1. Parallels on the M1 Mac is available as a Technical Preview and Windows can only be installed through Windows Insider, so neither of these are release versions of software. Parallels Desktop, a Mac desktop virtualization app that lets users run Windows and Linux operating systems and applications on an Apple computer, has released an update for M1 Macs. The Best Windows-on-Mac Experience. Parallels Desktop 16.5 boasts native support for new Apple Silicon Macs, alongside their Intel predecessors.
You now have a reliable and quick way to run Windows 10 on an M1-based Mac — provided you're willing to make some tradeoffs. Parallels has released Desktop 16.5 for Mac with full support for M1 Macs, promising 'native speeds' for the virtual machine when you're running Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview. You can run Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, too.
In some cases, the M1 could perform better than a theoretically more powerful Intel-native setup. Parallels claims you'll get up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance on an M1 Mac than you would an Intel-based MacBook Pro with a Radeon Pro 555X GPU, and 30 percent better virtual machine performance compared to an even higher-specced Intel MacBook Pro. The company even says power consumption on an M1 MacBook Air should improve by 250 percent, although it's comparing that to a 2019 MacBook Air (as its footnotes indicate) and not the last Intel model.
© Parallels/Corel Windows 10 for ARM running in Parallels Desktop on Apple M1 MacBook Pro- More than 100,000 M1 Mac users tested the Technical Preview of Parallels Desktop 16.5 for M1 Mac and ran Microsoft’s Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview, as well as tens of thousands of different.
- Parallels Desktop for Mac with Apple M1 chip Apple’s “one more thing” event on November 10, 2020, revealed the first Mac computers powered by the Apple M1 chip. Parallels is excited to see the performance, power efficiency, and virtualization features that are brought to the Mac with the Apple M1 chip.
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Parallels M1 Technical Preview
As we hinted earlier, though, you'll have to make some compromises. An Insider Preview by its nature isn't stable. You might run into crashes or glitches. And while Windows 10 for ARM does emulate 64-bit x86 apps, you'll only get that vaunted performance with the smaller number of ARM-native Windows programs. Don't expect a favorite game or a must-run productivity tool to perform as well as it would on a comparable x86 PC. Helio a22.
Parallels And M1 Macs
This still makes many Windows apps available, though, and it's a considerably more elegant (not to mention more universal) solution than CrossOver's emulation-on-emulation approach. Think of Parallels as a crutch that could save you from keeping a Windows PC (or an Intel Mac) around just to run legacy software.