Parallels offers "Green Computing Bundle"

In that case, who would pay for an application that lets you virtualize an OS? There's a free alternative to Parallels called Virtual Box from Sun that works rather well. I personally prefer VMware Fusion because it offers the best support for 64-bit OSes.

I think the key in the free vs. commercial/shareware argument is: what are you getting? Which has better features? Which offers support when you need it? Which works better for your needs? Which is more reliable or robust?

Yes, there have been some very tempting ones. This one, and the one I saw a month or two back, were underwhelming. Wait for MacHeist; their last two bundles have had like 8 out of ten apps that I could really use: and the other two, I could see why other people could really use them. But nothing like this "email a doc instead of printing it" BS I'm seeing here.

I had similar thoughts. I've been paperless for like five years now, without any third party apps. Just needed the motivation of printer cartridges being more expensive than printers! Suddenly the need for a hard copy seems so September 10th.

Yep, the paperless one is the only "green" app in there, and it's raison d'etre is pretty dubious.

the idea of running virtual native with the OS seems such a bad move on apple's part. i would think this more of way to compete with VMFusion. I've seen Parallel's bundle a few times with other apps.

I highly doubt that the "Brick" would allow you this, if it did they would wait until Snow Leopard to release such a feature and last I checked there is no guestimated date for 10.6, but the "Brick" is rumored to com out next month. Besides that the complexity of virtualizing a windows system that is there to an application is extremely hard to do, just look at how many products are out there today that can do this. the only one I know of is WINE, an even that only works on you most basic applications. Quite honestly I think the only company to release something that might do such a task, and do it well is VMWare since they acquired Thinstall, which essentially does the same thing for the windows side.

I'm guessing it's because if you run Windows in a VM like Parallels you don't need a second computer. It's a bit of a stretch, honestly.