WWDC Live: Parallels demo at Jillian's

I hope they are able to tap into the extra graphics cards on the MBP's in Snow Leopard. How sweet would that be to have a completely dedicated graphics card for the virtual machine.

What in the world are you guys talking about? I'm running Windows 7 beta in Parallels on a Macbook Pro without any problems at all. No lag, no crashing...nothing. I don't use Aero, I feel it's a waste of space and just not needed, so I have no problem with that. The seemless integration with OS X 10.5 is just astonishing. I can drag and drop things from Windows to the OS X desktop and save and use them later on.

My favorite thing is the ability to, with a single click, run Windows 7 in full screen mode on a 30 inch screen and have the Dock show up or have the Widgets show up while in Windows, without leaving Windows. If I can't find a program in Windows, I just jump to the OS X dock and share the directory where I have the file. Seemless !!!

One more thing ..... More on the downside, my Macbook Pro runs really hot with Windows 7 running, up to about 160 degrees farhenheit on the CPU with the disk spinning and stays at about 148-155 degrees. On the other hand, running a VPN with Mac OS X natively, without the Windows emulation brings the temperature down to 115 degrees. I think that this may be due to memory, with the disk drive playing Ram. Uncertain if this is common knowledge, but perhaps they could do something about that.

Overall, I've never used VMWare, so I can't compare, but Parallels has been astonishing. It's a real shock to C:// on a Mac.


Rick.

WHy is it that I have yet to encounter a person who uses Parallels who ever has it running at even half the speed shown in these demos?

Is this feature in there now in the current version? Meaning the almost direct hardware access in this case.

Figures. I just switched to Fusion. Parallels was just not stable running Vista on my Macbook. It's fine with an XP image, but there were too many times where the Parallels would completely hang (especially after I updated to the latest rev).

This is huge for me. If Parallels gets this out before VMWare (VT-d, ie what they call FastTrack), I may become a VM switcher.

So they can directly access the card to give us accelerated 3D but still can't support dual-monitors in the guest OS?

how long does it have to take these guys to get aero running? vista i can let slide, but now with win7 on the horizon, i think they need to make that a priority.