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Parallels 3.0 RC announced

by Michael Rose May 31st 2007 at 5:41PM

If Windows is the new Classic, then Parallels Desktop for Mac is the Classic Enabler of the new millennium; there's no easier way to get XP running on your Intel Mac, should you wish to do something as antithetical to the Macintosh way as that. Virtualization heavyweight VMware has been sneaking up, though, releasing early betas including preliminary 3D support. Now Team Orange is leaping back to the front of the pack with a release candidate announcement for version 3.0 and upgrade pricing ($40 before June 7, $50 after that).

New features in v3 of PD include:
  • SmartSelect -- set your preferred application handlers cross-platform. Want to open URLs in IE7, mailto: links in Mail.app, or .xls files in Excel 2007? You can now.
  • 3D acceleration -- DirectX and OpenGL support will allow 3D gamers to play Windows games at some modicum of acceptable speed
  • Snapshot -- back up or roll back your virtual machine
  • Parallels Explorer -- copy files into or out of your virtual disk images or your Boot Camp partition
  • Enhanced Boot Camp support, better USB, better printer sharing, shiny Coherence 2.0
So far the RC is not downloadable outside the beta program, but I imagine as soon as it is, we'll all overload Parallels' servers like we usually do.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in

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Carl Caum

So does the acceleration work on Linux?

June 04 2007 at 10:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bearxor

errr.. I just realized it says May in my post, when it should in fact say March (which would make the 'looking for updates for three months' comment make sense).

So returning it isn't an option.

June 02 2007 at 1:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Williams

@44... umm... return your three unopened copies to the place you bought them... wait for the new one, and buy them again???

June 01 2007 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bearxor

It's bullshit. I've got three unopened copies of parallels sitting here I bought back in may that I can't use because coherence won't run a vista boot camp partition. Not only that but I thought video acceleration would be included. I've been checking parallels site everyday for three months looking for a update. Now I guess I know why there wasn't one.

Now what? Another $120 on top of the $240 I've already spent?

June 01 2007 at 5:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zachary Hinchliffe

15, 16, 19, 20: Don't feed the trolls, guys.

June 01 2007 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Crap, I bought Parallels a month ago but haven't opened it while I've awaited the new MBPs. Now what I wonder?

June 01 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
artifex

Thanks, Steve.

June 01 2007 at 12:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ThunkDifferent.com

Great improvement, for a great product.

"How do they do it!"

http://ThunkDifferent.com

June 01 2007 at 11:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

A friend of mine in the Parallels beta program has said that their is a parallels tool for Ubuntu in 3.0 (Auto screen sizing, seamless mouse hand-offs, but no 3D yet) .... whether it will work with other distros remains to be seen.

June 01 2007 at 11:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JD

!, stop shitting on the Mac platform and go back to your Windows computer.

June 01 2007 at 10:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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