Greetings Experts, I'm shopping for a new Mac and want to confirm if Parallels will work better with more cores (iMac Pro with 10 cores @ 3.2 ghz) or a higher processor speed (Regular iMac with 6 cores @ 3.7 ghz). The PVM I need the machine to support runs a high-resource usage windows-based enterprise business application. It needs to do lots of code crunching and some serious database work, but not so much on the graphics side. Historically I've run this as a Windows VM on Hyper-V with dedicated 32 gigs RAM and 4 dedicated cores - which provides adequate performance, but could be better. My plan is to convert this VHD to PVM and run it on the new Mac. The question boils down to which hardware configuration works best with Parallel's ability to deal with virtual "threading". Any advice and suggestions are appreciated!
Hi if you plan to run a high-resource usage windows vm, it will be much better to use Parallels Desktop Pro edition. If you have any additional questions or it's not that case, please let me know.
Hello Maria, I'm actually using the PRO edition. Do you have any benchmarking whether Pro works better with more cores? Or higher processor speed? Thanks!
Actually you can add any cores and RAM if your Mac has necessary system requirements. We didn't make any special tests.
