

It also supports integration with popular virtualization tools like Docker and Vagrant. Parallels Desktop also includes features like support for DirectX and OpenGL, which allows you to play Windows games and use other graphics-intensive applications on your Mac. For example, you can drag and drop files between Windows and macOS, share folders and printers, and even copy and paste text and images. With Parallels Desktop, you can run Windows applications on your Mac as if they were native macOS applications, with seamless integration between the two operating systems. Parallels Desktop creates a " virtual machine" on your Mac, which is essentially a simulated computer environment, allowing you to install and run other operating systems and their applications alongside macOS. Parallels Desktop is a virtualization software application for macOS that allows you to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS, on a single Mac computer without having to restart the computer.
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With Windows PCs available for next to nothing, both new and refurb, with Windows pre-installed (you know Windows is not included with either emulator, right?), please, someone provide me with justification for not just buying a cheap PC to run your QuickBooks Pro, or some other application not available on MacOS? Sure you can do it, but in the words of my late mother, "JP, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD." Mom was wise. It mystifies me as to why anyone would want to run Windows on a Mac, silicon or otherwise.
