

Thanks to their ARM architecture, M1-based Macs are extremely power-efficient and offer better performance than many comparable PCs. This feature should be ready later this year.Apple is on a roll with its current lineup of M1-based Macs, which now includes the compact Mac mini, the stylish iMac, the silent MacBook Air, and the beastly MacBook Pro. Parallels is currently working on adding the possibility to run macOS Big Sur in a VM for M1 MacBooks.

Up to 30 percent better virtual machine performance (Windows): Running a virtual machine (VM) of Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview on Parallels Desktop 16.5 on an M1 Mac performs up to 30 percent better than a Windows 10 VM running on Intel-based MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9 processor.Up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance: Parallels Desktop 16.5 running on an M1 Mac delivers up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance than on an Intel-based MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 555X GPU.

On a Mac with an Apple M1 chip, Parallels Desktop 16.5 uses 2.5 times less energy than on a 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air computer.Here are some of the performance and efficiency highlights for the new Parallels Desktop 16.5: All the popular software suites including MS Office, MS Visual Studio, SQL Server, MS Power BI and MetaTrader, as well as many games like Rocket League, Among Us, Roblox, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Sam & Max Save the World run even faster than on an Intel-based Mac, while the M1 processors allow for significantly higher energy efficiency. More than 100,000 M1 Mac users tested the Technical Preview of Parallels Desktop 16.5 in order to ensure a seamless Windows-on-Mac experience that is optimized for the new ARM-based processors from Apple. Windows 10 is now fully functional at native speeds on Apple’s latest M1-powered MacBooks thanks to the release of the highly-anticipated 16.5 version for the Parallels Desktop virtual machine manager.
