Testers loved Parallels Desktop’s easy-to-use features and seamless integration of Windows with macOS Big Sur, which increased productivity,” said Dobrovolskiy in a statement. “We received enthusiastic feedback about the remarkable performance of both the Technical Preview of Parallels Desktop 16 for M1 Mac and Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview as well as x86 applications and games, including Rocket League, Among Us, Roblox, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Sam & Max Save the World and many others. More than 100,000 M1 Mac users tested the Technical Preview of Parallels Desktop 16.5 for M1 Mac and ran Microsoft’s Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview, as well as tens of thousands of different Intel-based Windows applications-including Microsoft Office for Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, Microsoft PowerBI and MetaTrader. This enables our users to enjoy the best Windows-on-Mac experience available.” However, virtual machines are an exception and thus Parallels engineers implemented native virtualization support for the Mac with M1 chip. “The transition has been smooth for most Mac applications, thanks to Rosetta technology.

“Apple’s M1 chip is a significant breakthrough for Mac users,” said Nick Dobrovolskiy, Parallels Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support, in a statement. Separate Parallels Access and the just-redesigned and simplified Parallels Toolbox apps, which are both included for free concurrently with Parallels Desktop subscriptions, now also provide native support for M1 Mac computers. It also delivers M1 support for the most popular ARM-based Linux distributions.

The M1 chip’s superior performance delivers the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, revolutionary power efficiency, and was designed to work with macOS Big Sur - which Parallels Desktop 16.5 transforms into a new standard for a seamless Windows-on-Mac experience. Experience Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview and its applications on Apple M1 Macs.

Parallels today released Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Mac, which features full native support for Mac computers equipped with either Apple Silicon or Intel chips.

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