I did exactly that on my 2013 MacBook Pro for at least 5 years (2015-2020).
Until a few years ago the Mac version of BIAB was, in my opinion, inferior to the windows version.

So I ran parallels and BIAB win under Parallels on my mac.

It worked just fine. Probably slower but not annoying in performance.
I found it an acceptable approach.

I just recently purchased BIAB Mac 2021 so I'm going to once again give the Mac version a go. I understand the two products are better than 95% identical. I can live with close enough.

I've always hated running parallels, VM's in general annoy me. I do realize that the VM world has improved significantly.

I believe with the release of 2021 Mac BIAB there is no reason to run the win version under Parallels.


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