Will Parallels work on new mac air 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I just purchased the new Mac Air Book 11-inch model with 1.6GHz. Parallels spec says the program require 1.66GHz.

Will the program work? Here are the precise specs:

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Processor 065-0201 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Memory 065-9770 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
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Hard Drive 065-9772 128GB Flash Storage

 

If it doesn't work, it won't be because of the CPU speed.

 

I have the same question... .would love to get one of the brand new Macbook Airs announced 10-20-2010. Just wondering if ANY of the new models are compatible with Parallels.

Anybody?

 

I have a new 13 MBA and it works perfectly. No fans, not heat.

I had the old air with Parallels 4/5 and it was awful.

 

13" MB Air has different processor

Does anyone know if this will work with the 11.6" MacBook Air?

 

Works Great on MacBook Air 2010

I have a 2008 15" MacBook Pro with a 2.53 GHz faster processor, 4GB of RAM and a traditional HDD that I compared to my top of the line 13" 2010 MacBook Air with a 2.13 GHz processor, 4GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.

Parallels 6 running Windows 7 Professional runs faster on my 13" 2010 MacBook Air. It's snappy, responsive and lacks the beach ball waiting periods I see in my older notebook.

Windows 7 inside Parallels boots faster (38 seconds to Windows desktop) than on my MacBook Pro install (81 seconds). I installed each virtual machine from a Boot Camp install.

I attribute the speed / performance improvements to the stunning solid state drive performance despite a slower processor.

My Windows Experience Index for the MacBook Air tested to 5.3, limited only by the graphics card rating at the same number. Processer= 5.7, RAM=5.9, Gaming Graphics=6.0, Primary Hard Disk=6.9

My Windows Experience Index for my 2008 MacBook Pro tested to 5.4. It's graphics card rating was 6.4 and Processer= 6.1, RAM=6.1, Gaming Graphics=6.4, Primary Hard Disk=5.4.

Across the board, having a faster solid state drive seems to be the single most important performance booster. The MacBook Air excels at it's performance.

 

I can't say that I'm all that big a fan of the new MacBook Air, but the numbers posted by twoeyedox are very impressive and very useful for anyone looking to run Windows on their MacBook. Many thanks for that info!

 

I'm surprised that Parallels hasn't updated their System Requirements page, nor commented here on support for the Air.
Users report that both 1.4 and 1.6GHz Airs work fine (provided they have 4G RAM), but the official statement still calls for:

As a prospective user, should I be concerned about this apparent lack of enthusiastic support for Parallels on the Air, especially the 1.4GHz 11"? I don't have experience yet with Parallels support, but if they don't update their pre-sales information to reflect a major new platform...

P.S. We haven't heard from many 1.4 GHz 4GB users yet. Is your performance comparable to that reported for the 13"?

Thanks!

 

Bit of an old thread but wanted to chip in with my experience as it may help others....

So I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise x86 (my corporate build) under Parallels 6.0.12090. I P2V'd my company laptop (Dell Latitude D420) which had a 1.2ghz CoreDuo CPU with 2.5GB RAM in it and a Harddisk that came from the ark - so the Macbook air virtual guest is MUCH faster. The guest machine is set to 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM, 60GB HDD, 256MB Graphics Ram.

I've got a Macbook Air 13" with 256GB SSD, 2.1GHZ CPU and 4GB RAM, Snow Leopard 10.6.8, usual Displayport to HDMI and VGA for presentations and Wired Ethernet for offices where there is no Wireless...

Key things I've found:
- Macbook Air has US keyboard even though its a UK model - so Win 7 has all the wrong keys assigned by default - I needed to change the layout to US in the Windows guest
- Under Coherence mode I cant find the taskbar pinned icons so I had to pin the same icons to the start menu
- Bridged Mode Wifi works fine at home but not in the clients site im on at the moment so I had to switch to Shared Mode (note System CPU utilisation goes up under Shared Mode for me)
- Mac Office 2011 apps are no where close to Office 2007 (Win) in terms of resource hog so I'm slowly trying to migrate over (although a whole bunch of missing features in Office 2011 Mac are causing me a world of pain)
- The CPU utilisation under Activity Monitor was always through the roof causing the fan to run at >3000rpm all of the time and the CPU temp to sit >80degC. To fix this I disabled graphics Vertical Sync, set the virtual HDD to be a fixed size and not compress, Disable shared folders (but left clipboard sharing enabled), set for guest performance to increase battery life, Mac performance preferred (not windows), Turn off adaptive hypervisor, Turn off Timemachine, Turn off snap shots, Turn off compress disks, Turn ON tune windows for speed. Now it hovers around 7-18% CPU utilisation and applications are MUCH faster.
- Disabled Bitlocker in the windows guest (My Mac's HDD has full encryption turned on which mitigates this)


Hope that helps someone

Cheers, Simmo

 

I did want a MBA, but ended up going for a MBP i7, the CPU utilization hovers around 8%, I normally run Win 7 on a windows environment on my 24" external monitor and the mac environment on the laptop .... timemachine to a QNAP SAN .... works very, very well .... when the MBA can have the current june MBP specs (i7, 8G ram, 512 HDD), I'll move over to MBA .... 256 HDD is too small for me and 4G would make the win 7 / mac OS scream for resources...

 

I'm running the Air with 4GB and 128GB and Lion. Parallels 6 and Windows 7 Pro.

I agree with your assessment of Office for Mac 2011 vs Outlook 2007 on Windows because I have them both and don't use the Mac version, ever, while using the Windows version constantly.

My fan does run a lot which to me was surprising so although I'm pretty knew with the Mac OS I'm going to try to find all those things you mentioned and see if I can make the changes and see the results. Thanks !!