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#Getting the most speed out of parallels for mac windows 7#

MacTech has done an excellent job at evaluating the performance of these two products, so which package is the winner? MacTech also takes a look at Retina support for both Windows 7 and 8 in the two VM programs (click for larger view).

#Getting the most speed out of parallels for mac pro#

The performance tests were done on two MacBook Pro systems, one iMac, and a Mac Pro that were configured with common configurations of Core i5 and i7 processors (the Mac Pro used a Quad-Core Xeon), and RAM configurations of between 4 and 16GB. In addition, MacTech looks at how each VM solution implements and handles Retina display support for Apple's laptop systems. It delves into multiple aspects of these virtualization packages, looking at everything including system launch times and application launch times, memory footprints and host CPU usage, file I/O performance, graphics capabilities, and optimal configurations for managing guest installations of Windows 7, Windows 8, and OS X. There have been several comparisons between VMware and Parallels, but in the latest one, MacTech tries to cover as much ground as possible. In addition to the standard graphics and CPU comparisons, MacTech offers a look at other details like file I/O, where the performance differences are a lot more subtle (click for larger view). Be it booting a system or sheer number crunching, if you can do more of it at once or do it in less time then you likely have the edge.īenchmarks have always been the standard for comparing different set-ups, but often when new products hit the market, their benchmarks include only a basic overview but often don't detail every aspect of the system's capabilities. While bigger may be better in some things, faster arguably takes the cake when it comes to computing.

The article outlines in great detail the performance of each, not just regarding running popular programs and boot times, but also on file I/O, optimal host configurations, Retina display support, and a number of other important performance considerations for the virtualization packages. MacTech has just published an extensive benchmark comparison of the latest versions of Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion.