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The most interesting thing about this to me was the bit at the end about Windows and Games. I've heard of Windows emulation on Mac before but this is the first
by loh 6y ago
The most interesting thing about this to me was the bit at the end about Windows and Games. I've heard of Windows emulation on Mac before but this is the first time I've heard of Parallels.
> Now you can download Steam and basically install anything and it will probably work. Microsoft really did some amazing magic in getting both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 programs running on arm64.
The author makes it sound like you can run basically all Windows software on Mac without issues with Parallel, including more demanding software like games you'd find on Steam.
Does anyone here have experience with Parallels? How does performance compare? My assumption with this kind of emulation was always that performance would typically suffer too much for it to be worth it.
- deevolution 6y agoParallels has been around for a while... I used it to play the homeworld franchise years ago but more recently I have used bootcamp. Not sure about performance on M1 tho.
- emrah 6y agoI have Parallels and my experience on my intel MBP is gaming is not very good on it. It's mostly graphics support that is lacking I believe. I'm not sure how M1/arm support would make it work better but I sure hope so.
- nwotnagrom 6y agoI prefer browser based options such as shells.com where you can actually just access Windows or Linux on a virtual cloud computer. Much easier than messing with Parallels...
- immigrantsheep 6y agoI wouldn't bet on it. Specially since his go to game is Age of Mythology. A game that came out in 2002.
- ksec 6y agoYou used to get anywhere between 10-30% performance drop on the Mac running Windows Emulation with roughly the same Hardware. With M1 since the chip is quite a bit faster you get report saying it actually runs Windows Apps on a M1 Mac better than on x86 Windows. Of course YMMV, and those Apps were not Gaming, which are mostly bottlenecked by the GPU and Drivers.
- TheOperator 6y agoAnything that touches the GPU is notably flaky over parallels (or any hypervisor for that matter), otherwise it's more or less seamless. I always had Windows open on my Mac before I abandoned them during the 2016-2020 dark ages.