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Screencast shows off Parallels' new tricks

Mike blogged about the new Parallels Desktop beta yesterday, and he mentioned a number of the new features that he is excited about. He didn't mention 'Coherence' mode which lets you run Windows apps along side your Mac application. However, I couldn't get this working on my MacBook Pro (I'm running Vista RC 2, and that might have something to do with it). Luckily for me, video blogger Michael Verdi has put together a great screencast showing off Coherence and a bunch of other neat new features. Check it out and marvel at the wonders of virtualization.

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Mike blogged about the new Parallels Desktop beta yesterday, and he mentioned a number of the new features that he is excited about. He...
 

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Elias

I've always mentioned something like this would be excellent and help the transition.

Citrix has this exact same feature.

December 04 2006 at 11:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

Gandhi:
I think the thread where the latest beta was released in mentioned it would be a free upgrade after it was properly tested.

December 03 2006 at 3:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

meatmcguffin:
You could always crack out SeamlessRDP on your virtual machine and rDesktop (as of release 1.5) into it, which splits all windows into separate entities using X11. It has some limitations and issues, and using explorer interferes with SeamlessRDP as the window manager (task manager works great for launching things in this case.) Coherency mode is faster, though, is built right in to Parallels, and doesn't require anything extra to run.

December 03 2006 at 3:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gandhi

Just purchased Parrallels last week during Apple's Black Friday online sale. Now this latest beta is out, with some awesome features. Anyone know whether this will be a free upgrade to current buyers once this goes official?

December 02 2006 at 10:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fritz Laurel

And yes, I might as well put my two cents in on Parallels:

Hats off to this lot. They continue to make my life easier. Parallels is a great product.

Cheers,
FL

December 02 2006 at 10:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fritz Laurel

Bahaha --

"... which lets you run Windows apps along side your Mac Application." What, there's only one? Are we back to _that_ argument again? lol

You make Fritz laugh.

Cheers,
FL

December 02 2006 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan Claver

Coherence mode is awesome. As was noted in the post, this doesn't work with Vista RC2 but it does work fabuously with XP SP2. Can't wait for 3D video and USB 2.

One feature I would like to see is the VMWare snapshot, and of course the ability to run OS X in a Parallels VM...

December 02 2006 at 10:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tom

Coherence mode is amazing. Everything about this beta is awesome.

December 02 2006 at 9:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr Lizard

Don't feel bad for the Crossover folks.

Crossover doesn't require Windows at all, whereas Parallels Desktop does.

This latest update rocks though!

December 02 2006 at 9:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin Cook

I don't understand Parallels. Does it require you to have a copy of XP, like VMware?

December 02 2006 at 8:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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