Ars reviews Parallels Desktop 1.0
The Intel chips really have ushered in a new Era for Mac users. No longer do you need to keep a crappy Windows box around for those tasks that require that other OS. Boot Camp, as you know, is Apple's utility that turns your Intel Mac into a dual booting dream machine.But who wants to reboot their machine just to check their bank account? Luckily Parallels, virtualization software, is available for the Mac. The good folks at Ars Technica take the newly 1.0'ed software for a spin and they like what they see. The only drawbacks are the lack of support for burning CD/DVD's and you won't be gaming on your virtual Windows machine.
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The Intel chips really have ushered in a new Era for Mac users. No longer do you need to keep a crappy Windows box around for those tasks...
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"Sorry, I'm a new Mac user.. so I dont get why Mac users would want to run windows on thier Mac's..."
I use Parallels to get around the awful preformance of Rosetta when working in Flash 8, and even for Adobe products. Rosetta is fine for most apps, but I can't run Photoshop and Illustrator concurently without one crashing while I work in the other, which is really quite annoying considering the load time for either program.
Of course I'm one of those switchers that like using both OS X/XP for various tasks and think it's great to not have to use my Windows desktop when I can just run all my program in general on my MBP.
That made me laugh too! Of all the reasons you might need to access the odd windows application, checking your bank account wasn't one I'd have thought of. Are there really still banks where you can't use a Mac?
The worst proble I had was having to use IE to use a certain bank, but even that worked on the Mac and it works in Safari now.
>> you need widows to check your bank account? lol
"Sorry, I'm a new Mac user.. so I dont get why Mac users would want to run windows on thier Mac's..."
The only thing i ever use it for is converting some Office files to PDF (because the exact same fonts aren't available on the Mac) or working with Publisher files (ugh).
An if you need to use Windows to access your bank then you seriously need a new bank.
great software and works rock solid. i use it to run apps that aren't created for the mac, i.e. any King School's software. Thanks Parallels and keep up the good work.
July 10 2006 at 2:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWe should be seeing VMWare for OS-X soon enough. End of summer? Q4?
July 10 2006 at 2:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyForgot to mention. One big thing that parallels doesn't support is FIREWIRE.
That was a bit of a downer, for a variety of technical reasons.
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I didn't review Parallels per se, but I did use it to evaluate the Yellow Machines products (Terabyte NAS storage, VPN, routers, etc.)
The people at http://www.yellowmachine.com posted it for your enjoyment.
The goal was to see if Mac users could be full users of the Yellow Machines configuration software using Parallels. You'll have to listen to see if you can.
DarWine is just around the corner. With support for Half-Life 2 I think. Needless to say, whenever I get a Mactel I'll be skipping Parallel's Desktop and Boot Camp.
July 10 2006 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wonder if some of the older games will play through Parallels? Say Theme Hospital. That game would run on my old 100mhz, 32MB RAM Win 95 PC and that I don't think had much in the way of a graphics card.
July 10 2006 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWill it finally "just work" after I buy this software?
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