The biggest drawback in running any kind of software through virtualization, however, is the performance hit.

It asserts its M1 optimizations provide up to 96% better performance over the previous version of Parallels Desktop.

“There are idiosyncrasies with Windows on ARM that means it’s just not as polished a product.”

Parallels Desktop 18 now compatible with Apple’s M1 and M2 chips

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Parallels Desktop 18 running Windows 11 on a MacBook

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