
“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. 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’s legendary ease-of-use 2 -which transforms Parallels® Desktop 16.5 into a new standard of seamless Windows-on-Mac experience.


Users will now be able to run Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview and its applications as well as the most popular ARM-based Linux distributions on Apple M1 Mac computers. Enjoy smooth Windows UI and video playback, a higher frame rate, and much more.We’re very excited to announce the highly anticipated Parallels® Desktop 16.5 for Mac with full, native support for Mac computers with either Apple M1 or Intel chips.

This release brings full support for Apple’s ProMotion display with automatic refresh rate changes and up to 96% faster Windows 11 on M1 Ultra devices. Parallels today announced the release of Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac with performance and gaming updates for Windows users and more.
