New Macbook and Parallels Desktop
- Thread starter AviM
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Dishant@Parallels
Parallels Support
Hi AviM,
Yes, the new Macbook should be good enough to run Windows 8.1 pro on your Parallels Desktop.
However you can still refer to this knowledge based article to know more about the compatibility of Parallels Desktop 10 with Mac systems : http://kb.parallels.com/114381
To know all the supported guest operating systems that you can run with Parallels Desktop 10, please refer to this knowledge based article: http://kb.parallels.com/122662
Yes, the new Macbook should be good enough to run Windows 8.1 pro on your Parallels Desktop.
However you can still refer to this knowledge based article to know more about the compatibility of Parallels Desktop 10 with Mac systems : http://kb.parallels.com/114381
To know all the supported guest operating systems that you can run with Parallels Desktop 10, please refer to this knowledge based article: http://kb.parallels.com/122662
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Dishant@Parallels
Parallels Support
Hi AviM,
As long as your Mac has the following:
As long as your Mac has the following:
- An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core M or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported)
- Minimum 2 GB of memory (4 GB of memory is recommended)
- About 850 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation.
- About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.
- SSD (Flash Storage) is recommended for greater performance.
Dishant@Parallels
Parallels Support
You are welcome! Feel free to reach out anytime if you have any more queries.
mastercraft
Junior Member
Yes, I am running Windows 8.1 Pro via Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac on my (relatively) new Retina Macbook. I purchased the 1.3 GHz/512 GB SSD model the first day it became available and I've been running the VM without any issues to this point. What do you plan on doing in the VM?