Why should you buy Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac?

Parallels have released Parallels for Mac with macOS High Sierra support and upcoming Windows 10 features. The software gives MacBook Pro users the ability to add Windows applications to the Touch Bar and use the Touch Bar directly in the Windows applications themselves.

This is also the first solution that allows using the People Bar function on Mac, which has been prepared for release in Windows 10, including integration with Mac Dock and Spotlight. This version also improves performance for some tasks up to 100%.

Features

In this Parallels Desktop 13 Review, you can see the most important new features of this version.

Touch Bar

When you use the Start menu or the Windows desktop, Parallels Desktop 13 displays the items on the taskbar, as well as icons for accessing Cortana, the task view, and settings directly on the Touch Bar. Thousands of other Windows applications that work in Parallels Desktop can be customized by implementing the popular actions of the Touch Bar if there are not enough function keys available by default.

People Bar

In Parallels Desktop 13, the People Bar has been integrated (from Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16232), the upcoming Windows 10 feature that gives users the ability to pin contacts on the taskbar. Although there are no more than three contacts allowed on the People Bar in Windows, and there are no number restrictions on the Mac Dock which also enables larger photos of contacts.

Picture in Picture mode

In Parallels Desktop 13, the feature "Picture in Picture mode" is included. This function creates windows of other active virtual machines, which always will be on top of all the rest of the windows, even if any Mac application is running in full-screen mode. Now you can control several operating systems and their applications at once, and also work on them on one screen or watch the video, switching between Spaces areas and macOS applications.

Single Application mode

Among the new features of Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition, you can mention the "Single application" mode. This feature allows system administrators to deliver, lock and protect and invisible Windows virtual machine with chosen apps on the Mac Dock panel so that users can easily find and use Windows applications in the same way as Mac applications.

In addition, a number of improvements in terms of visualization and display have been implemented, which has improved transitions and resolution when scaling. Owners of high-resolution Retina displays will appreciate the greatly improved sharpness of text and graphics in zoom mode.

Requirements

In other to set up and use this program, in this Parallels Desktop 13 Review we give its system requirements:

Hardware Requirements

A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Intel Core M or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported)

At least 2 GB of memory (to install Windows 7 on a virtual machine or if your primary OS is X Lion, 4 GB is recommended)

About 850 MB of disk space on the boot disk drive (Macintosh HD) for installing Parallels Desktop 13

About 15 GB of free space for each virtual machine

Software Requirements

macOS Sierra 10.12 or later

OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 or later

OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 or later

Guest OS 32/64-bit

Windows 10

Windows 8

Windows 8.1

Windows Server 2012 R2, SP0

Note! To activate the program, install updates and some additional features, you need an internet connection. Operating systems for VMs, such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris, are not included in the package.

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