Today’s demo had 3GB assigned to the virtual machine running Windows, on a Mac with 16GB of RAM. How fast this works depends on how much RAM you have on your Mac, of course. The trick, they explained, is keeping some resources used for the user interface loaded in memory. In demos today, Parallels executives showed how Microsoft’s Powerpoint can be fired up almost instantly, as if it were a native Mac program. The Microsoft operating system now loads in the background on startup so programs such as Office can be opened without having to cold-boot Windows. Newly created snapshots also take up 15 per cent less space, they said.Īnother enhancement in the new version is speed. Through optimisation, Parallels promises to cut down the space required in Parallels Desktop 14, its representatives told reporters at a launch in Singapore today. Currently, some of these virtual machines take up anywhere from 15GB to 100GB of space.
This will appeal to users who run Macs that don’t have a lot of disk space.
The latest version promises to save up to 20GB of disk space that is used by virtual machines, or the operating systems that run on top of the base Mac OS on an Apple computer. PHOTO: Parallels websiteįolks who use Windows on a Mac can now run both operating systems using less disk space and fire up apps faster with the Parallels Desktop 14 cross-platform software released today.
