Parallels on a Mac with windows 10

[jimim]

I’m doing something I never thought I would do. Install windows in a Mac.

The new automation app I use only can be programmed and created on windows and the old old windows machine I use for this is just a bear and I have to constantly move files from my Mac to the windows machine with google drive.

So I’m going to document my experience with a virtual machine on a Mac. Last time I used a virtual machine was in like in 2000.

This new Mac should be able to easily handle the virtual machine. It’s got 64 gb of ram and is a i9 Intel.

I didn’t use boot camp cause I didn’t want to give up any of my hard drive to a partition for windows cause I do a lot of photo editing and I will only be using windows for this 1 program.

 

[kimkats]

Well I never.............did not know you could do that!

 

[jimim]

I got Everyrhing installed and running. Windows runs just as fast on the virtual machine as if it was on a partition on the hard drive. No lag at all. The program I use for my house automation is pretty heavy on ram use too. I run the virtual machine and can run photoshop on the Mac side without any issues. I’m pretty happy. Tomorrow I’m going to do some gaming and see what the speed is like.