Windows 11 on Arm

When you first install Windows, it asks if you are going to use the operating system for personal use or connect to a work/school account. Are you using this machine in an actual business location or are you connecting remotely? If you're connecting remotely, the company has to provide you a method to connect to their network. The business account is provided by the business that you utilize. If you are directly within the business, you have to connect to their provided network. All information required to use that business account would be provided by the business (username, account information, domain name, etc.). You have to make sure that you can connect to a network with Windows and that can be done via the Parallels Configure section while in the VM .

 

Windows 11 ARM on a Mac Studio M1 is not faster than Windows 10 on a 15 year old Mac Pro5,1 intel. Novabench scores (1200) are approx the same. However native in Macos, the M1 is much faster. Let's hope that there is a significant speed increase in Parallels 20. Fingers crossed.

 

Hey @FilipR, please note that Novabench software is x86_64-based and is running via emulation in Windows 11 on Arm (the one you have on Mac Studio M1) that bottlenecks the performance. Microsoft keeps working on 1) improving the emulator performance; 2) "pushing" 3rd-party software to re-compile their apps for Arm. I recommend reading this article to get more context on this: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/26/...-arm-qualcomm-copilot-plus-pcs-prism-emulator.

Comparing performance of an Intel Mac vs Apple silicon Mac is a tricky thing, it's hard to compare compare apples to apples in this case(smirk). Performance engineers use "Performance Per Watt" as a metric to compare Intel vs Arm, as Intel CPUs are indeed more powerful but consume much more energy to achieve that performance. Moreover, computer workload, VM configuration, macOS version, Windows version - all can influence the results. Try Geekbench 6, it is Arm native, I wonder what results you will have:

 

Thanks for the info, Dmitry. Geekbench 6 (CPU single / multi: Mac Pro 5,1 507 / 2032 vs Mac Studio M1 2423 / 11931) proves you are right. However Parallels still runs fine on my Mac Pro where Fusion Pro is incompatible)

 

Trying the demo before buying Parallels.
I am running in problems trying to install Windows11, see attached picture.
It's asking me to connect a disk image, how do I do that?
Thanks in advance to anybody that can help me fixing this.

 

When you first install Windows, it asks whether you'll be using the operating system for personal use or connecting to a work/school account. If you're connecting to a business environment remotely, the company must provide you with the proper method to access their network. Your business account details (username, domain, sign-in instructions, etc.) are all provided by your organization.

If you're using the machine directly within a business location, you'll need to connect to the company's internal network. Make sure Windows in your virtual machine is able to connect to a network--this can be configured through the Parallels Configure settings for the VM.