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Parallels Desktop 18
The software is available either as a One-time purchase or as a monthly subscription:
One Time Purchase has no eligibility for free future upgrades (starting at AU$134.25)
Ongoing subscriptions costs AU$8.68 a month for the first 12 months, then reverts to the non discounted pricing of $11.58/month.
That 50% discount seems to apply to yearly plans only.
yup my bad, so this deal is for life time usage?
Title is all wrong for the link provided. When I try to checkout each version:
Parallels Desktop
* $104.25/year (was $139.00/year); or
* $134.25 one time purchase, but not eligible for free upgrades
Parallels Desktop Pro
* $126.75/year (was $169.00/year)
Parallels Desktop Business edition
* $156.75/year (was $209.00/year)
@iamnotafish: Hmmm classic trickery from Parallels, apologies - fell for it even though it seemed low.
Which of any of these products allow people to play PC games on M-series macs?
Crossover is the tool usually the paid application that allows playibg x86 games on mac.
apple has just release ‘game porting toolkit’ based on the opensource translation tool developed for crossover that works better.
If you’re comfortable with uodating to beta OS of mac and using command line you can play latest dx12 games (some play better thab others apparently)
VMware fusion for personal use is free.
Is it working on the Apple silicon chips? Last time when I checked it didn't :-(
It does
Didn’t realise:
Running Windows on Mac is only the beginning. Choose from hundreds of supported operating systems, from cloud-ready Linux distributions to the latest Windows 11 on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs, all without rebooting.
yes it does
Yes, remember you might also need ARM Windows 10/11.
Would I be able to play windows games using VMware Fusion? Also seems like just the trail is free, am I right?
yes, its exactly like a windows pc. you will need to configure the VM settings depending on game's demands.
VMware fusion is free to use for education and personal purposes (you need to register on their website)
Sounds awesome. Thank you
I would like to buy the lifetime licence but I assume I can only install on 1 mac?
Yes, but please be aware it only includes updates for the version you are purchasing (18 in this case): https://kb.parallels.com/122929
Thanks for clarifying.
Only able to install on 1 mac may be a deal breaker for me…
Depending on what your requirements are, it's also noteworthy to point out that on top of building a Hypervisor framework (which many of the current Virtual Machine applications utilise on macOS since the deprecation of Kernel Extensions), Apple has also been working on a Virtualization framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization) which has support for GPU accelerated macOS VMs as well as GUI Linux VMs, it also supports Rosetta so you can install an aarch64 Linux VM and run x86-64 binaries on it. You can find sample projects at Apple's site, as well as videos from Apple's WWDC events describing how to put these together yourself, no doubt there probably already are, or at least will be free utilities to make use of this framework which will negate most of the benefit and need of these commercial products.
From my experience not many things are free in the Apple ecosystem.
It depends on what you need.
For developers and systems administrators you get a lot out of the box or supplied by Apple or the community for nothing extra.
In any case, I personally find this Virtualization framework interesting as it seems to offer macOS virtualisation performance not available previously through other commercial offerings, I shall be taking a closer look once my MacBook Pro arrives as currently my newest Mac is from 2015.
Agreed, would love to hear your thoughts after you've played with it.
UTM already uses the apple virtualisation framework for ARM64 operating systems.
I still use the free VMWare fusion though.
So it does, last time I looked at that the "Under the hood of UTM is QEMU" stood out so I didn't look into it too much deeper.
I found VMware Fusion in the past was quite limited for what I would have liked for Mac VMs so I utilised a Mac mini which I'd regularly rebuild instead.
Why do you prefer VMWare Fusion to UTM?
I think the last time I used it there was no support for suspending the guest OS I was using (or maybe it was snapshots? Can't remember lol). I really only use Ubuntu ARM and windows 11 ARM - maybe that has improved. Fusion suspend is very slow compared to parallels. Parallels is really the best functionality but too expensive for my occasional use.
I think 50% off student email ?
https://www.parallels.com/au/landingpage/pd/education/