Parallels is useful for niche software, or legacy applications, where there is no Mac equivalent.There are a number of benefits to using this kind of virtualisation software: Parallels can even simulate important keyboard shortcuts such as CTRL-ALT-DEL. Coherence allows Mac and Windows apps to be used side by side. Windows can be run in its own window, in full screen mode, or in an integrated view called Coherence. Parallels is different it runs Windows alongside OS X. The software creates a Windows virtual machine that runs alongside the native operating system.Īpple’s Bootcamp application creates a bootable copy of Windows.
Parallels allows Apple users to run Windows on a Mac OS X computer. You could use Mac OS X’s Bootcamp too to natively run a Windows OS, but if you still need access to your files, programs and data on your Mac, then this could be a time consuming way of solving the problem.
Have you ever needed to use Windows-based software for some reason, but you use a Mac? There are different workarounds for this issue.
