#Is there a parallels for windows install#

For Microsoft, which has since launched its own Surface hardware range, it’s really not bothered about losing a relatively small contingent of Mac users. So I'm activated in Boot Camp natively but not when Parallels is running Boot Camp as a VM. When I reboot and start up Windows 10 within native Boot Camp, the activation screen says 'activated with digital entitlement'.

Apple would obviously prefer customers to stick with macOS and it only provided Boot Camp in the first place to tempt ardent Windows fans into the Mac camp. Attached is the Windows activation screen that I am presented when in Windows 10 on a Parallels VM. You don’t get the sense that either Apple or Microsoft executives will lose any sleep over this. Windows 10 is due to be supported until 2025, which gives Windows on Mac fans a little breathing space, but with Apple focusing all its manufacturing efforts on its own silicon rather than Intel’s, it’s going to become harder and harder to find Mac hardware to run Windows natively in the years to come. After all, they should know best about security issues in their own systems. Boot Camp is an Apple product so I will be recommending them.

#Is there a parallels for windows install#

Apple and Microsoft have remained stubbornly tight-lipped on support for Windows 11 in Boot Camp, but unless Apple finds some way to fake the TPM chip in the same way Parallels does, you simply won’t be able to install Windows 11 in Boot Camp. There shouldn’t be any differences between Boot Camp and Parallels when it comes to security issues. Certainly, if you plan to play 3D games or run other demanding applications, Boot Camp offers far superior performance than a virtual machine.Īlas, however, it seems Boot Camp is being slowly shuttered. Parallels Desktop is good, but for raw performance many people prefer to install Windows in Boot Camp, which has direct access to the Mac hardware.