SSD (Flash Storage) is recommended for greater performance. Minimum 2 GB of memory (4 GB of memory is recommended)Ībout 850 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation.Ībout 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine. To install and set up Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac, you need:Ī Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core M or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported) It would be interesting to investigate what can be the cause of this.
There have been complaints about Parallels (or VMware Fusion) slowing down Mac computers (for instance at Proz).
