New Parallels Desktop beta enables better USB, performance, integration

Trevor - Yes, you should be able to use your Garmin GPS / Mapsource. I've been using Parallels with Windows XP and my Garmin GPSMap60CSx with great success (at least as much as is possible with the rather quirky MapSource).

I'm excited for the windows mobile 5 support. My mac is being shipped. I've been a windows man for a long time and I'm now making the switch. I have been asking for awhile if the mac can sync to windows mobile, but haven't gotten any optimistic answers. Now that this will support it, I'm psyched!

It still doesn't work with my Sandisk Cruzer Micro with U3 support. It doesn't even recognize it at all. I bought the drive, because I was hoping it could be a solution for going back and forth between Parallels and Bootcamp.

I don't think that we'll need Parallels of VMware for to long. I think that we'll be running windows apps on the Mac without windows soon.
Apple Cider

You mean that I just paid $80 bucks for the live version and I could have downloaded the new beta for FREE? That kind of sucks!

combine this with Spaces = sweeeeet...

the only problem..

video games blow .. so who needs windows

Mr Lizard:

I noticed you mention the issues with 3d acceleration. I know VMWare (of course, on windows, emulating xp/2000) suports 3d accel, at least at the time I tried it it was a beta feature, a 9500 pro running at gf3 speeds in the emulated machine. My hope is that Parallels might be able to achieve this as well, as even slight assistence would greatly improve redraw, though I haven't had a chance to try this beta.

I thought I had heard of rumors that VPC would have 3d accel as well, though I'm new to macs as of the MBP (at least as a full-time machine) so I'm not sure what ever came of this (and I know the windows version of VPC never had 3d accel.)

I would hope the move to x86 would make the use of 3d accel easier, though the video card itself is, of course, flashed with a mac rom so this could be the reason it's not more common or easy to achieve.

Parallels wont be an ideal solution until they support raw partitions as virtual disks. When this happens, you will be able to boot your Boot Camp windows partition both natively and within parallels. People keep going on and on about how it won't work because the virtual hardware differs from the physical hardware, blah blah ...

See windows has this thing called Hardware Profiles that is designed to allow a laptop to be booted in a docking station or a removable hard drive to be carried between computers -- that sort of thing. The setup would be a bit cumbersome, but it would be possible to support a dual boot physical/virtual windows install using this mechanism. But until parallels supports partition -> virtual disk mappings it won't even be possible to try!

I just want to know if I can take advantage of all of the features with my Garmin Legend C?

I am sick of borrowing my dad's piece of crap Toshiba laptop just to update my maps!

Does the new version make this tweak obsolete: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060622090404212