Parallels Desktop® 14 for Mac is finally here!
With Parallels Desktop, you can run Windows, Linux, and other popular operating systems on your Mac® without rebooting. For over 12 years, we’ve been the #1 solution for over 5 million users worldwide.
Version 14 has over 50 new features, including performance improvements, graphics improvements, and support for new technologies. Plus, it saves up to 20 GB of virtual machine storage space, starts four times faster, and is ready for macOS® Mojave.
- The Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac installation image, which is notarized by Apple®, will be seen by users when it is installed on Mojave. Enhanced Graphic Support and 4K Shared Camera Support.
- Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac is available right now for $79.99, with discounted upgrades available from the previous editions (v12 or above) for $49.99. You can purchase. You can purchase.
Parallels launched Parallels Desktop 14 for the Mac on August 21 with support for Apple’s macOS Mojave plus a a host of new features and enhancements. A virtual machine (VM) system, like.
“Millions of Parallels Desktop customers highly value performance and efficiency,” said Jack Zubarev, Parallels president. “With Parallels Desktop 14, we’ve taken those to the next level by focusing on graphics and storage, allowing customers to save as much as 20 GB of disk space while enjoying the best-ever performance. Personal productivity enhancements include more Windows features available on Mac devices. Touch Bar™ support for Windows applications — such as OneNote or Quicken — enables customers to add their favorite applications to the Mac Touch Bar so their shortcuts are at their fingertips.”
Curious about the new features? Let’s take a look.
Ready for the Latest OSes
Parallels Desktop 14 will be ready for the macOS Mojave release as a host and guest OS, and right now the beta version of macOS Mojave can be tested in Parallels Desktop 13 and 14.
The new version is integrated with Parallels Desktop. It will support Dark Mode in Parallels Desktop windows, and the enhanced Quick Look and screenshot features can be used within Windows applications. Camera continuity also imports pictures from iOS 12 into Windows applications, plus many more features.
As soon as the new Microsoft Update is released, it will also be supported in a virtual machine in Parallels Desktop 14.
Figure 1_Ready for latest Windows 10 release and macOS® Mojave as host, guest and beta
Enhanced Storage Optimization
Typically, virtual machines are large, taking anywhere from 15–100 GBs of space or more.
Our engineers worked really hard, and Parallels Desktop 14 can save up to 20 GB on your virtual machines. Upgrade to Parallels Desktop 14 and you can see how much more storage you have. Figure 2 shows an example how this might look like:
Microsoft Ink on Mac
Parallels Desktop 14 now enables customers to use Microsoft Ink to edit Microsoft Office for Windows documents on a Mac, including pressure-sensitive support in applications such as PowerPoint, Microsoft Edge, CorelDRAW, Fresh Paint, Leonardo, openCanvas, and Photoshop for Windows.
Figure 3_Support for Pressure Sensitivity in Ink in Microsoft PowerPoint
Touch Bar Configuration for Windows Applications
In Version 13, we first introduced the possibility to configure all Windows applications with the MacBook Pro® Touch Bar. In version 14, we’ve added preconfigured Touch Bar sets for the following applications: Microsoft Visio and OneNote, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit, Quicken, QuickBooks, and Visual Studio. What should you do if you want to configure a Windows application that is not preconfigured by Parallels? Don’t worry — with the Parallels Desktop Touch Bar Wizard or the Touch Bar XML Authoring, you can configure any Windows application you want.
Figure 4_Enables users to further customize Touch Bar support for their favorite Windows applications.
Enhanced Graphic Support and 4K Shared Camera Support
One of our focus areas when developing Parallels Desktop 14 was graphics and videos.
- Improved OpenGL support for enhanced graphics, with notable improvements in SketchUp 2017/2018, CTVox, DIALux 8, and OriginLab.
- All view modes have been improved in terms of speed and memory usage, which is especially important when working on multiple high-resolution external displays, including those of 5K resolutions.
- Unused virtual video memory is now effectively returned to Mac system memory. Auto mode for graphics allows Windows to use more than 2 GB of Mac system memory for video purposes, while allowing Windows 8 and 10 applications to use it when possible.
- Additionally, users now get a better frame rate in video conferencing and can use shared camera technology with cameras that support up to 4K resolutions.
Performance Improvements
Every year, Parallels Desktop becomes faster and stronger. This also happened this year.
- Up to 200% performance improvement on the iMac Pro® (audio and video encoding, AI, 3D modelling, cryptography, and other complex math calculations workloads) thanks to AVX512 Intel Cannon Lake processor instructions set support
- Up to 80% faster application launch
- Up to 10% faster boot time
- Up to 30% faster suspend operation on APFS partition
- Up to 130% more frames per second in Shared Camera
- Up to 17% more frames per second in Coherence view mode
Special Gift for Parallels Desktop Users
In all editions of Parallels Desktop 14, users get more than 30+ single-click utilities from Parallels® Toolbox for Windows and Mac (for one year).
Check out all the recently released features in Parallels Toolbox here.
Figure 5_Parallels Toolbox for Windows and Mac is included with Parallels Desktop 14.
For Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition Only
- Smart card readers are now automatically available in both Mac and Windows for faster access (if enabled).
- Administrators can invite users via email and assign separate administrators for sublicenses for improved efficiency.
- Replace existing virtual machines in Deployment mode to streamline productivity.
- Applications deployed in the Single Application mode start faster, along with a new modern-looking splash screen.
- The Parallels My Account portal has been redesigned to be optimized for popular use cases.
- And lots more!
System Requirements
- A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M, or Xeon processor
- A Mac computer running macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 or later, macOS Sierra 10.12.6 or later, or OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 or later
- Minimum 4 GB of memory — 8 GB is recommended
- 600 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop application installation
How to Get Your Copy of Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac
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Parallels Desktop for Mac 14 has been unveiled. The popular cross-platform solution that lets you run Windows 10 on your Mac features support for Apple’s upcoming macOS Mojave update and includes storage and performance enhancements, and more.
The primary focus of this year’s Parallels Desktop for Mac release is on enhanced storage optimization. This year’s version is between 20 percent and 30 percent smaller than earlier releases. This will allow you to save as much as 20GB of disk space.
Performance improvements, meanwhile, include:
- Up to 200 percent performance improvement on the iMac Pro (audio and video encoding, AI, 3D modeling, cryptography and other complex math calculations workloads)
- Up to 80 percent faster application launch
- Up to 10 percent faster boot time
- Up to 30 percent faster suspend operation on APFS partition
- Up to 130 percent more frames per second in Shared Camera
- Up to 17 percent more frames per second in Coherence view mode
Also, for the first time, Apple TouchBar support has arrived for the following popular Windows apps: Microsoft Visio and OneNote, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit, Quicken, QuickBooks and Visual Studio. They join other apps that picked up TouchBar support in previous years including Office 2016 (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Windows Start Menu and desktop (Cortana, Task View and Task Bar pinned elements), File Explorer (File Open and Save As settings), and web browsers (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi).
In announcing Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac, Jack Zubarev, Parallels president explains:
Millions of Parallels Desktop customers highly value performance and efficiency. With Parallels Desktop 14, we’ve taken those to the next level by focusing on graphics and storage, allowing customers to save as much as 20 GB of disk space while enjoying the best-ever performance. Personal productivity enhancements include more Windows features available on Mac devices. Touch Bar support for Windows applications — such as OneNote or Quicken — enables customers to add their favorite applications to the Mac Touch Bar so their shortcuts are at their fingertips.
Parallels For Windows 10
You can download a copy of Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac online. Current version 12 and 13 users can upgrade to the latest version for $49.99. New users can buy the software for $99.99 or sign up for a $79.99 per-year subscription. Parallels Desktop 14 Pro Edition and Business Edition are both priced at $99.99 per year.
Parallel Desktop For Windows
For testing purposes, you can download free trials of both Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac and Windows 10.
