Parallels Workstation 2.1b4 has been released. Parallels Workstation is not simply a “dual-boot” solution; rather, it allows users to run Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy Mac OS X while still being able to use applications from other OSes.
What’s new in this version:
• Introduced full screen mode
• Introduced dual-monitor support
• Improved real CD/DVD support
• Improved, easier to use interface.
• Better sound support, including a fix for Windows 2000 guest OS
• Networking kernel panics resolved
• Bridged networking issues fixed
• WiFi networking issues fixed
• Fixed some of the issues encountered when entering “Sleep” mode when a VM is running
• Many other minor bug fixes
More info and download link here.
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I might need Winders some day…
MDN magic word: “miles”, as in I’d walk miles to avoid Windowssss…
Selling my 1.67 GHz Powerbook is looking better by the minute.
Viva la MacBook Pro!
More than 5% will understand this.
I am glad to see that we’ll be able to VM with someone else’s software other than MS’s Virtual PC – wonder what VMWare has up their sleeve for Mac OS X
– bye
WAY TO GO!!
Is this company stock available?
This isn’t anything that won’t be native to Leopard in the Fall. Apple will certainly be upgrading the Boot Camp experience to match or exceed this. Mark my words.
…and buy AAPL now!
Mark this MDN post. In a couple of years, we can revisit it as what was happening in a watershed moment in the history of OS’s AND the point in time when the Mac OS started its phase out – all according to Steve’s terms of surrender. Nuts.
I’ll mark the “truth hurts” posting as a memorial to the “sky is falling” mentality that afflicts the Luddites of the world.
Seeing as how this makes the Mac the ONLY computer on the planet that will run Windows, OS X and Linux all on one system, this is hardly a hint of surrender. Quite the contrary.
When we look back in a couple of years, it’ll be to see whether or not the Mac’s marketshare has either doubled or tripled over that time frame…
Impressive….running Solaris/OS2 Warp/Windblows/ SUSE Linux with OSX as the primary OS. Really Amazing….now my Windblows buddies jaws will drop to the ground.
Reality Check…I see what you are saying. But the number of Mac hardware sales not so much Mac OS will be the factor…..is where the market share will be. Apple is first and foremost a hardware company.
Yeah, I’d normally be pretty excited about this, but Leapord will come with all of these features. And if Boot Camp is any indication, it will be done RIGHT as well.
Having said that, I kinda still want to play around with this. Has anyone here used it? Is the speed decent?
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All we need now is a third party review….
I will echo the feeling so often expressed here that you have to get the system into the room before any transfer can take place. Better having Mac OS X sitting on desktops and laptops everywhere for when Windows craps out. The migration will come as people see it, use it and realise that it never craps out.
MND Magic Word=”room”. I don’t believe it!
“…it allows users to run Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy Mac OS X while still being able to use applications from other OSes.”
SCHWEET!!
Is this company’s stock available?
Why? You want to buy it, sell it to fools, then dump it before Apple releases Leopard with virtualization probably built in, causing that company’s stock to tank?
Or did you want to buy it, hold it, then lose all your money when Apple releases Leopard with virtualization probably built in, causing that company’s stock to tank?
I thought I heard a bell earlier. It must have been the Truth Hurts post. The Apple Death Knell Counter hasn’t been rung in a long time unless your Rob Enderle of the “Enderle Group”.
Good: Boot Camp allows Dual Boot to Windoze XP
Better: Virtualization to allow Windoze to run within OS X
Best: Run Windoze software in OS X WITHOUT RUNNING WINDOZE!! It is only a matter of time. Can do it with only minor performance hit. “One More Thing” for Jaguar.
Does anyone know if the new release solved the graphics driver issues? ow do graphics-intensive tasks perform?
Which begs the question…
What if Vista also provides virtualization?
Running everything except Mac OS X?
I think I’ll go lie down, my head hurts just thinking about it.
Got 2GHz MacBook pro recently. Ran a signal processing program in Parallels WS. It beat an IBM thinkpad with 2GHz Pentium M by 10%!! Pretty amazing. Graphics is slow, but if not doing GUI too much, the pure
processor performance is really quite good!!
Mudflapper said:
“Having said that, I kinda still want to play around with this. Has anyone here used it? Is the speed decent?”
I have. I loaded Mandrake 9.2 on it and it runs at real time speed. Rather
impressive. Could’t get the scroll wheel mouse working, and I am stuck
with 800×600 screen size (if you go bigger it hides the bottom of the
window out of sight off the bottom of the screen instead of scaling it to
fit within the available screen realestate). I have *one* windows program I
used to run in VPC that may intice me to go out and get Windows 2000 for,
just so I can continue to use this RV Travel Planning software package.
But I’m not willing to spend >$300 for XP. That’s another advantage of the
Parallels solution. You can run older versions of Windows. Boot Camp
makes you go out and by XP.