Jiří Filip When Apple last week introduced a new MacBook Neo, users began to discuss quite quickly how to deal with things that owners are Machave been used to for a long time. One of them is of course virtualization, i.e. the ability to run on Macfor example WindowsAnd this is where the first interesting news from the developers at Parallels comes in.
Shortly after the device was launched, they warned that their Parallels Desktop tool was not yet available on MacBookThe Neo has not been officially tested. But now the situation has changed. Parallels engineers have completed the first basic tests and according to them, virtualization on it seems MacBookIt works without any major problems on Neo.
Parallels Desktop is on MacBookNeo was able to install without any problems and according to the developers, the virtual machines are running stably. However, this is only the first round of testing. Detailed verification of compatibility and performance is still underway and if any limitations appear, the company wants to point them out in the coming weeks.
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It's interesting mainly because of the chip used. MacBook The Neo is not based on an M-family processor, but on the A18 Pro chip. The Apple so far used mainly in iPhonech and some iPads, so it wasn't entirely clear whether it would support virtualization as well as the M-series chips. But according to early tests, it seems to have the necessary hardware support for running virtual machines.
Parallels also points out that for more comfortable work, Windows It pays to have more than the basic 8 GB of RAM. The only Windows because he needs miniat least 4 GB of memory and the virtual machine then has to share the rest with macOSThis may be enough for light use, but with more demanding work, the memory will be noticeable.
On the other hand, it is good to remember that Apple was selling MacBookys with 8 GB of RAM for many years and virtualization worked on them for common tasks without any major problems. So if you only occasionally need to run an older corporate application or utility that exists only for Windows, can be according to Parallels MacBook Neo is still a usable solution. You just need to take into account that this is not a machine designed primarily for demanding work in virtual systems.
