

The integration with macOS amazingly well done, and the speed blows away Virtualbox. It’s something we use at How-To Geek every single day for testing software and running Windows.


RELATED: How to Seamlessly Run Windows Programs on Your Mac with Parallelsįor most people, though, Parallels makes running Windows on your Mac dead simple. If, however, you’re looking to play Windows games on your Mac, Boot Camp might be a good choice. The vast majority of the time you don’t actually need to use Boot Camp, and you’d be better off using a virtual machine. If all you need to do is run a few Windows applications on your Mac, and those applications don’t a lot of resources (like 3D games), you might consider using a virtual machine like Parallels (there’s a free trial), VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox to run that software instead.
