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25% off Parallels Desktop for Mac AU $82.46 @ Parellels

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25% off Parallels Desktop for Mac AU $82.46 @ Parellels
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Pjesterx on 21/06/2019 - 21:52 parallels.com (259 clicks)
Last edited 24/06/2019 - 12:16 by 1 other user

Just noticed that Parallels are having a 25% off birthday sale for Parallels Desktop.

For a new Desktop License with the discount applied it comes to $82.46 AUD (usually 109.95). With Shopback 10.5% cashback brings that to AUD $73.80
For a new Pro/business license with the discount = $103.09/year. With shopback 10.5% discount, that brings the total per year to $92.3

Have tried virtualbox before i finally took the plunge with parallels earlier in the year (at full price doh!) and the performance difference between the two is remarkable. Worth the purchase if you need regular access to a Windows VM and your daily driver is a mac.

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  • jv on 21/06/2019 - 22:04
    +2

    PRICE in title

  • Clear on 21/06/2019 - 22:08

    Gotta agree with you. Has to be the best I've used to run both Windows 10 simultaneously with my Mac. I guess it's time for a version upgrade :)

  • thaiiy on 21/06/2019 - 22:26

    How does the discount work with the subscription? Is it a perpetual discounted price or will it revert to full price next year?

    • jesterx on 21/06/2019 - 23:13

      Doesn't say anywhere explicitly but on the checkout page it just says $103.09AUD/yr and nothing about 'for the first year' so I assume that the discount is recurring.

    • jimbobaus on 22/06/2019 - 07:17
      +2

      discount is year one only from my exp.
      i bought this last year at a discounted price, renewal came in at full price this year

  • lazybones1987 on 21/06/2019 - 22:58
    +3

    I've used Parallels and Virtualbox and Virtualbox has come a long way. I don't find the need to spend the $$$ to use Parallels anymore.

  • jeeg on 21/06/2019 - 23:15

    Is this only subscription based? i.e. the AUD $73.80…is this per year?

    Edit: answering my own question….it is a one time payment :)

    • jimbobaus on 22/06/2019 - 07:18
      +1

      The software will only work for 12m… in one year you need to pay again to keep using it
      Parallels do not sell a "buy once" product anymore (since 2018 version) you only get 12m access for the price and in a week or so you get an email letting you know you have agreed to be charged again in 12m time (i clicked link in email to cancel that last year)

  • cozmo on 21/06/2019 - 23:24
    -3

    funny you dont see Windows users wanting to run macOS on their machines….

    • freewhere on 21/06/2019 - 23:42
      +3

      I guess you must be blinded by arrogance. I've seen way too many iOS & Mac-Store & Xamarin wanna bez trying to do this .. literally hundreds (possibly thousands) of businesses use Hosted Mac servers for Xcode compilation. funny right!

      • cozmo on 21/06/2019 - 23:56
        -1

        funny is right!

  • jimbobaus on 22/06/2019 - 07:16

    i had this for my iMac and while it runs great i have to say the fact its a subscription only model now is a bit of a let down.
    they are charging what they use to charge for the full version but you only get 12 months access now.

    also my renewal from last year came up and it was full price (i got it at a discount last year)
    in end i decided to go Bootcamp and remove this, cant justify $100 a year for something i wont use enough.

    still going to give it an upvote
    even if this is a shopback offer (wont touch them with a 10 foot barge pole)

    • jesterx on 22/06/2019 - 09:54
      +1

      When you purchase the base edition (i.e. Desktop) you get the option of choosing one time purchase or subscription. With one time you don't get free upgrades and email support ends after a while. Additionally if Apple change something in macOS that breaks parallels you're SOL. So it is possible to pay one time only but there's a bit of a risk.

      https://kb.parallels.com/122929

  • gadgetguy on 22/06/2019 - 10:24

    I got an email direct from Parallels today with a 25% birthday "upgrade" offer of $53 for a one off purchase (no free upgrades).

    I'm currently using an old version I purchased years ago.

    Looks like that's the standard upgrade price if you ever owned a copy and also the student price.

    They don't seem to be validating you are a previous user or a student though so that price may be available for everyone.

    • maybeamacy on 22/06/2019 - 23:22

      Do you have to enter the license key from the previous version if you're buying the upgrade? or can I just buy and install that instead without being a previous user? Cheers :)

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