Enjoy multichannel sound support and jack presence detection with native drivers in Linux VMs. Powerful New Features for Apple M1 chip Mac: With Parallels Desktop 17, Windows 10 recognizes Mac battery status and enables battery saving when your Mac runs low of charge. The new virtual TPM chip enables Windows 10 and Windows 11 to use BitLocker and Secure Boot for the higher level of data protection.The new driver boosts the frame rate in many 2D action-platformer games including Foregone, Smelter and many others for a greater gaming experience. Display Driver for an Enhanced Windows Gaming Experience: The improved display driver in Parallels Desktop 17 delivers much smoother Windows UI responsiveness and synchronized video playback experience.

Up to 60% faster network connection on macOS Big Sur (and newer) virtual machine.Up to 28% better DirectX 11 graphics performance.Up to 20% faster Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview disk performance.Up to 33% faster Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview start.Up to 25% faster 2D graphics in Windows.OpenGL graphics perform up to 6 times faster.Up to 38% faster Windows, Linux and macOS resume.Applications running with Parallels Desktop 17 on Mac computers with Apple M1¹ and Intel chip now run remarkably faster and more efficiently.Engineered for macOS 12 Monterey and Windows 11: Parallels Desktop 17 will support macOS Monterey as a host and guest operating system (OS) and will be optimized for Windows 11, with both new OSs expected later this year.New and Enhanced Feature Highlights of Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac:

Parallels 17 officially lets you run Windows 11 on Mac improvements include

Windows 11 parallels