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Let’s take another look at general performance with the PCMark benchmark, which offers a number of tests that balance CPU, GPU, memory, and storage. We’ll perform these tests again once Yosemite is released and let you know if anything changes, but for now you can expect the same Parallels 10 performance regardless of whether it’s running on Mavericks or Yosemite. We did, however, run all tests using Parallels 10 on Yosemite Developer Preview 6 out of curiosity, and there was no significant difference in the results. Although a major feature of Parallels 10 is Yosemite support, we’re only officially reporting Mavericks results as Yosemite is still in beta and may cause irregularities with the benchmarks. In terms of software, we’re using OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks and the latest builds of Parallels Desktop 9 and Parallels Desktop 10.
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We realize that this may make some of the disk-based test results less relevant for readers using a traditional hard drive, but, really, SSD prices are cheap enough these days that everyone should pick on up for their system drive.
#Parallels desktop 10 review upgrade#
The only upgrade we’ve made to this system is the replacement of the stock hard drive with a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD. Our test platform for the following tests is a 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro, with a 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 CPU, 8GB of memory, and a 1GB Radeon HD 6750M GPU. To address this concern, we ran our benchmarks this year on much more modest hardware in the hopes that the results will be more relevant to our readers. In the past, we’ve run virtualization benchmarks on high-end Macs, only to receive a bevy of complaints that our testing hardware didn’t match the real-world scenarios encountered by most users.