Macworld 2009: Interview with Parallels' CEO Serguei Beloussov

Virtual Box is a good free alternative. Suits my needs but I didn't buy my Mac to run alot of Windows apps.

I hate to interrupt the hate/love fest... But does anyone know any more details on what he was saying regarding dedicated video hardware in a MacPro?

Has anyone heard of this before?? Any one done it? This could be HUGE.
-Chris

Not to be the spelling police but...

You made a small error in your first sentence.

[you probably do to] - Wrong to. It should be "too".

Sorry, this comment probably wasn't necessary but the to/two/too thing has always bugged me. :D

Anyway, although I have never used Parallels, I am perfectly happy with VMWare. I bought it based on the review on Apple's site and I don't plan on switching in the near future.

I have been using Parallels and the new version has been solid and fast. I have tried VM and it was good, but I went back to Parallels.

VM didn't have shared folders when I tried them and Parallels v 3.0 did, well before VM did. Without shared folders, for my use, I felt I might as well use boot camp.

So, I went back to version 3.0 of Parallels and did a compress and optimize and the speed was okay. Then, 4.0 came out and I loaded it. Super fast. Version 4.0 simply rocks. The latest update last week fixed a problem I was having with the iSight camera driver in Vista.

Someone should do a comparison between the two products now that they have both gone through major revisions.

LOL. You guys bad mouthing Parallels in favor of VMware really need a hobby or something. While I've never used VMware Fusion and it very well may be better than Parallels 4, I've had nothing but the best experience with Parallels 4. It may or may not be faster than VMware but it is definitely fast on my Mac. It's stable and reliable. I've thought about VMware but I'm too happy and impressed with Parallels 4 to make the switch. Perhaps in the future I could end up using VMware but it definitely won't be now. 

Great interview, no matter which virtualization product you like.
Can we expect an interview with the folks from VMware as well?

Terrible!

PARALLELS IS THE SLOWEST THING IN THE WORLD....

If you really *really* really want to run windows on your mac, you should be running it with VMware.

-Kevin

I've been using Parallels since 2.0. Parallels 4 is a nice upgrade, but I bought VMware Fusion out of curiosity. Let's just say it blows Parallels away and I'll never go back.