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Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 19, 2017 at 03:11 PM

Thanks Ken.
I didn’t know about the improved Coherence mode. In fact, it was useless in vs12. If it works in vs13, that’s good news and might be worth the update.

Posted by Hugh
Sep 19, 2017 at 03:13 PM

Hugh wrote:
Steve, I run a similar set-up to yours (Mac Mini plus 16Gb of RAM)
>although your Mac Mini may be more recent than mine. I used to run
>Parallels with Windows 8, Dragon Dictate and Word on it. It worked very
>well for a time. I gave up when it all slowed it up unacceptably under
>(IIRC) Parallels 11, and Parallels 12 did nothing to improve things
>(made them worse in fact). I’m therefore sceptical about the claims of
>Parallels 13, but I suppose a breakthrough in speed is possible.
> >The most annoying thing for me is that despite half-promises there’s as
>yet no Mac Mini hardware upgrade from Apple on the immediate horizon
>(which, if it does happen, is I suspect the most likely way we’ll get
>the speed increases necessary to make these high RAM and processor loads
>viable).

Many apologies, Franz - the above should of course have started with your name.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 19, 2017 at 03:23 PM

No problem, Hugh.
Being confused with Steven is no offence, it’s flattery :-)

Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 21, 2017 at 11:50 AM

Thanks, Paul.

I upgraded. Coherence mode works, and my word-processor Textmaker does not seem to be as sluggish as Word 2016 (for Windows) used to be in Parallels 12.
Almost 50% speed increase in Windows? I don’t think so.
Anyway, I am satisfied.

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