These 11 Award-Winning Mac Apps Will Have Your MacBook Running Like You Just Took It Out Of The Box
By ExtremeTech Staff on June 4, 2020 at 12:34 pm
It's easy to get cynical as an app buyer. With so many fly-by-night developers dropping dozens of half-baked apps for handling virtually any operation, you're bound to run into plenty of apps, both free and paid varieties, that just don't make the grade.
If you're a Mac user, then The Limited Edition Mac Bundle Ft. Parallels Desktop ($59.99, over 90 percent off) has thankfully done all that pre-screening for you. This collection brings together 11 apps, each closely vetted and including several award winners, all dedicated to a different aspect of priming your Mac — or you — to run at maximum efficiency.
The crown jewel of the collection is Parallels Desktop, a top 15 app in the Mac App Store that effectively turns your Mac into a super machine. Optimized for Windows 10 and macOS Catalina, Parallels lets thousands of Windows-based apps right on a Mac without any performance glitches. That includes everything from the entire Microsoft Office suite to Internet Explorer all the way up to graphic-heavy games or CAD programs, all running like they're native to the Mac.
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Those two apps alone are valued at around $300, yet this package also includes nine more apps for cleaning up every aspect of your Mac's performance.
For those looking to improve system performance, you'll get iMazing for effortlessly moving data back and forth between devices, while Disk Drill Pro recovers potentially lost or damaged files, and Delta Walker Pro for synchronizing and merging up to hundreds of thousands of folders and files to clean up processing space in your system.
As for tools, you'll have access to the Apple Editors' Choice winning PDF Expert to create and collaborate on user-friendly documents; TextExpander to speed up your typing with shortcuts to auto-fill content anywhere; and XMind 8 Pro which help users organize their thoughts with charts for business, presentations, and mind mapping exercises.
If you want to improve your home WiFi, NetSpot Pro is there to analyze your signal and give you the best possible web connection. If you need to erect a website, RapidWeaver 8 is an intuitive and fantastic web design resource for builders. And if you just want to crop or edit one of your digital images, Aurora HDR is a photo editor capable of loads of digital wizardry.
Every one of these apps is at least a $50 value on its own, with some retailing over $100 or $200 each. This offer brings the price for all 11 down to just $59.99, less than $6 per app.
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