Parallels Desktop official release, discount pricing ends July 15th
After months of betas and release candidates, Parallels has brought their fantastic Desktop OS virtualization software to an official release. As you might remember from their last release candidate, they have also listened to user feedback and bundled their Compressor Server tool for optimizing virtual disks and streamlining the amount of disk space they take up, which also brought the final price up to $79.99. However, until July 15th, Parallels is still offering a discount price of $49.99, so get those credit cards out if Boot Camp doesn't quite cut it.[thanks for the tip, Mark!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark said 4:49PM on 6-15-2006
Holy crap! It only took 7 hours for you to post this after i sent it from the "Contact Us" form!
YAY!!
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Russ said 4:51PM on 6-15-2006
So is it just for today or until the 15th of July? The post title and what it says in the post itself contradict eachother.
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Thayne Miller said 5:17PM on 6-15-2006
it should read JULY 15th. You have a month.
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kevin said 5:58PM on 6-15-2006
i find that happens a lot on this blog. tons of errors until the readers/commentors catch them, essentially proof-reading for the writers. mark didn't even get credit either.
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Brett said 6:13PM on 6-15-2006
Well, when's Leopard due to be released? I'm guessing this will be built into the next version of OSX, especially with the new Mac ads proclaiming that you can install Windows on a Mac (with buggy bootcamp). I for one will be waiting until 10.5 before making this purchase.
Oh, and the rest of you, stop your whining. Like #1 was the only person in the world that could have sent this in or seen this on their site? Please.
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David Chartier said 6:13PM on 6-15-2006
Sorry about the edits guys. I've been running around all day looking for a new house and preparing for a wedding in two weeks. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say we have 'tons of errors,' but until you guys want computers doing the blogging themselves, we'll keep trying to make sure our posts are squeaky clean.
Also, we sincerely do appreciate the tips guys, honestly. In this particular case, I personally found out about this at midnight last night, as I was passed a tip from another party, and I received my own email from Parallels about the release. We're not out to ignore y'all or scam you out of credit, promise. Just to make good though, I'll toss Mark some credit just to show y'all some good faith. Cool?
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Mikey said 6:47PM on 6-15-2006
Oooooo. Doesn't Mark feel guilty now? ;)
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Jonathan said 7:39PM on 6-15-2006
Relax guys- this is a fan blog. It's not like he's paid to do this- any money he gets goes to server fees.
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Bizzle said 9:35PM on 6-15-2006
Brett... care to elaborate on what is so buggy about BootCamp? I've yet to experience a single issue, nor have I read about one.
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osalom said 10:18PM on 6-15-2006
I´ll wait for OS X Leopard unless vista becomes as stable on paralleles as it is on Boot Camp
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Neal Saferstein said 6:28AM on 6-16-2006
There is no graphics card emulation, when that happens this product will be great.
Neal Saferstein
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Mark said 8:02AM on 6-16-2006
Oh man... I feel HORRIBLE!
Well, not really, but thanks for the love anyways.
I know what it's like getting ready for a wedding (I got married last year) but certainly there's more than 1 or 2 people behind the scenes here that can monitor tips and proofread posts, right?
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Dan Warne said 9:06AM on 6-16-2006
Sorry, I don't buy the line that there was big customer demand for the "server compressor". That sounds like an invented reason to bump up the price beyond the (relatively affordable) $49 to the much more flabby $79.
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Dan Warne said 9:09AM on 6-16-2006
Also, people who say Boot Camp is "buggy" fundamentally misunderstand what it is. It is not some sort of software sitting in the background while Windows runs; it's a firmware implementation of Intel's EFI Compatibility Support Module that emulates BIOS. The actual Bootcamp software that installs on your Mac does little more than:
- allow you to repartition the disk
- initiates the Windows XP SP2 installer
- helps you burn a driver CD for Windows
- allows you to see Windows as a boot drive in the startup disk preference pane.
But it's not sitting there in the background magically translating Windows or anything like that. A Mac is now, after all, just a PC with nice casing. Sure, its EFI BIOS is different to other PCs, but all Apple has done is add in the compatibility layer Intel created that Apple intentionally omitted originally.
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Chris C said 3:25PM on 6-16-2006
The only bug in BootCamp is Windows.
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