This was a busy week in tech, from the first reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 to TikTok's looming ban in the United States.

For a large number of Mac users who are still on Intel-based Macs, there’s one very good reason why they’re not switching ...

That changed last week with Parallels Desktop 20.2, which adds preliminary x86 emulation so you can fire up 64-bit versions ...

The Parallels Desktop 20.2.0 update makes it possible to run full-fledged Windows on Apple Mac computers with their own ...

The Parallels Desktop Blog says you can run x86_64 virtual machines on these devices. This allows you to install x86 versions of Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019/2022, and some Linux ...

Parallels Desktop 20.2 brings x86 emulation to Apple Silicon Macs, allowing developers and enterprises to run Intel-based virtual machines on M1 and M2 chips.

Parallels has long made it possible to run Windows ... Now you can run 64-bit versions of Windows (and some Linux distributions) made for x86_64 architecture. The feature is still in early preview ...

Last week, Parallels released a new update that partially resolves this problem: Users of Parallels Desktop Pro 20.2.0 now have access to x86 operating systems via an "early technology preview" of ...

However, this did not apply to virtual machines. As a result, Parallels Desktop previously only allowed Windows or Linux for ARM (plus the ARM version of macOS) to be used in VMs. The new feature ...

and Linux. While support for Apple Silicon has been around since Parallels Desktop 16.5, it has been limited in not having x86 emulation support until this update. The new emulation in a tech ...