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Parallels Desktop for Mac release candidate

Do the people at Parallels ever sleep? It seems like only yesterday I had never heard of them and now they are THE VMWare solution for the Intel Macs, and their product isn't even out yet!

Well, that is all about to change (at least the bit about the product not being out). Parallels today announced the availability of the release candidate for the newly rechristened Parallels Desktop for Mac (they thought workstation was too Windowsy).

What's new in this release you ask? Here are some highlights:
  • A new look and feel
  • Better sound support
  • Faster
  • An uninstaller
Looks good to me.

Thanks, Cooly.


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Bill T

The cube feature was added to parallels around beta 5 or 6. so it's part of the program now. works great on my MBP, run both OS X and XP in total fullscreen.

May 23 2006 at 8:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill T

The RC is working great for. This finally put me over the edge to preorder a copy for $40.

May 22 2006 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel

This may be a stupid question but how did that guy get the screens to rotate like a cube, when switching between OS's? I am going to be getting an intel machine at some point and would like to be able to switch between systems like that.

May 22 2006 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
igrec

CrossOver for Intel Macs developement is also advancing. The tool has come to alpha stage :
http://www.casualtek.com/2006/05/22/windows-on-intel-macs-serious-things-are-still-to-come/
http://www.casualtek.com/2006/05/22/an-insider-on-crossover/

May 22 2006 at 5:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mora

I installed it and now I am having problems while switching using Virtue Desktops, Parallels is now crashing everytime I switch desktop while using full screen mode.

Anyone is experiencing the same issue?

May 19 2006 at 12:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bobics

VMWare, like Kleenex, is a brand. Does it support converting of VMs between Virtual PC actual HD w/ Windows VMWare Parallels?

May 19 2006 at 1:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doug

does anyone know if the new macbook has the intel virtualization turned off like the mac mini? would love to have one of the black ones as a second machine if it can run windows/parallels at top speed....curious if anyone knows...

May 18 2006 at 10:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John Muir

Desktop is better than Workstation as a title, I agree.

May 18 2006 at 9:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Canadoc

Anyone know if one can use the isight camera in windows apps with the Virtualization software. I know you can't in bootcamp but can you this way? Would be nice to try msn messenger or skype for windows with video

May 18 2006 at 9:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
meatmcguffin

To anyone confused as hell afer installing this, the right click has been moved from ctrl-click to ctrl-shift-click. A lil annoying but, according to the parallels forums, apparently some windows apps need a dedicated ctrl-click.

Awesome app, just gets better and better!

May 18 2006 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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