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October 18, 2019

Parallels Desktop 15: 10 Features in 10 Minutes (OK, more like 8 minutes!)

I spent most of August traveling around Asia and presenting demonstrations of Parallels Desktop® 15 for Mac to various audiences, including technical press, bloggers and Parallels partners. The new Parallels Desktop feature that received the most positive reaction? The conversion to Metal and support for DirectX 11 in Windows. Also well received was the ability to play Xbox games in Windows 10 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: catalina, directx 11, Feature How To’s, Gaming, macos catalina, Parallels Desktop, Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, Xbox, Xbox Games
October 2, 2019

Sidecar and Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac

I’ve been using macOS® Catalina since the day it was publicly announced on June 4, 2019. That evening I had the first developer preview of Catalina running in a virtual machine (VM) in Parallels Desktop® 15 for Mac. While Catalina has many interesting features, the one I find most useful is Sidecar. Sidecar enables you to use an iPad® as a secondary screen on your Mac®. Figure 1 shows a midway … [Read more...]

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