Parallels Desktop is having their annual birthday sale. This is for Parallels Desktop 17.
Price is exactly the same as last year's promotion.
You can use Cashrewards or Shopback too.
25% off - Parallels Desktop A$82.46, Parallels Desktop Pro Edition A$103.09/Yr, Parallels Desktop Business Edition A$103.09/Yr
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suchan on 29/06/2022 - 22:44 parallels.com (443 clicks)
Last edited 30/06/2022 - 08:49 by 1 other user
Last edited 30/06/2022 - 08:49 by 1 other user
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What do you mean? Isn't this a perpetual license? Are you saying this won't work on the new macOS (Ventura)?
Yes, it's a perpetual license. But in most cases (yes, even the last few years, well after the 32/64 bit thing), they don't update it to work with the new OS version, forcing you to ether buy the new version of Parallels every year, or pay an annual subscription (for a higher price) to get the upgrades… which come out annually anyway.
They pretty much have never updated it for the new OS each year but it doesn’t stop working. Generally you are just missing new feature integration or a bit of performance. Essentially they don’t guarantee it will work after the OS is updated.
@roller: thats pretty crap. so if i bought today on monterey, there's no guarantee it'll work with ventura?
bloody hell, money grab if ive ever seen it.
might as well use vmware
@butter: Twice now, I've bought this and as soon as the OS gets updated, it no longer works - going to the parallels website simply says you need to buy the new version for compatibility with the new OS.
I now use VMware.
Most software that didnt work was when MacOS changed from 32bit to 64bit because developers couldnt be bothered updating their software and just sold new 64bit versions of it.
That was a massive architectural change. The next version is mostly cosmetic.
I think the massive architectural change was the switch to Apple Silicon, and everyone was still coming to grips with how it worked when it came to virtualisation.
I've been pretty happy with PD17 perpetual licence on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14". It's not the higher end versions which only come with subscription but I just wanted to play some old Windows games :)
Where your sources on that?
Seem to mostly work with the current MacOS beta
https://kb.parallels.com/en/128970I think he/she is implying that Parallels Desktop tends to lose support for the latest annual update of Mac OS after one or two years. Agreed they usually allow the current version to span at least two versions of Mac OS based on my experience (I've bought Parallels a few times now) but it's by no means a product which will last indefinitely… so it does make the subscription option a reasonably good choice, but for me, I just like perpetual licences.
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So Mac users get to experience random hanging and BDOD!
Always wondered why people just don't run a windows VM?
Just FYI new versions come out like clockwork in August - and the tech guarantee is generally only valid for a week or two before - so buying perpetual now will lock you to v17.
Still full of ads? Or did they lose enough customers to stop that?
Note that this will be worthless in a few months when Apple releases the next version of iOS, and you have to buy the upgraded version of Parallels. Not worth it IMHO.