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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1905267" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I've railed against Parallels myself because of their predatory business practices. They started artificially neutering their software from running on new releases of OS X when in some instances there was no technical reason it couldn't run. They just wanted you to pay for an upgrade to their software along with every OS update also. They also pulled a really evil bait and switch with a lite version of Parallels on the App Store that was free for running OS X VMs. Without announcement, they changed the terms to require a license and I recall reading some reviews from students who got burned when they literally woke up to find it unusable unless they paid up and were relying on it for school work requiring an older version of OS X that they used the VM for. As best as I can recall now anyway. It was utterly despicable. I was using it myself at the time, but it wasn't a critical need for me. It did push me to look into VMware Fusion and eventually get a license for that.</p><p></p><p>I am disappointed that VMware isn't "officially" supporting Windows on ARM yet, though I understand why they aren't (MS doesn't license its use on 3rd party hardware). Although I am baffled as to how Parallels is getting away with it. ANYWAY, although I have yet to try it myself, I have read that you can install it nonetheless with the Tech Preview version of Fusion for Apple Silicon and the performance is supposed to be on par with Parallels at least in some respects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1905267, member: 38864"] I've railed against Parallels myself because of their predatory business practices. They started artificially neutering their software from running on new releases of OS X when in some instances there was no technical reason it couldn't run. They just wanted you to pay for an upgrade to their software along with every OS update also. They also pulled a really evil bait and switch with a lite version of Parallels on the App Store that was free for running OS X VMs. Without announcement, they changed the terms to require a license and I recall reading some reviews from students who got burned when they literally woke up to find it unusable unless they paid up and were relying on it for school work requiring an older version of OS X that they used the VM for. As best as I can recall now anyway. It was utterly despicable. I was using it myself at the time, but it wasn't a critical need for me. It did push me to look into VMware Fusion and eventually get a license for that. I am disappointed that VMware isn't "officially" supporting Windows on ARM yet, though I understand why they aren't (MS doesn't license its use on 3rd party hardware). Although I am baffled as to how Parallels is getting away with it. ANYWAY, although I have yet to try it myself, I have read that you can install it nonetheless with the Tech Preview version of Fusion for Apple Silicon and the performance is supposed to be on par with Parallels at least in some respects. [/QUOTE]
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