“Parallels, Inc. is preparing to make a quantum leap in the art of Windows virtualization software for the Mac with a new version of its Parallels Desktop software that will introduce a refined user interface and greater support for Apple Computer’s Boot Camp software,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
Lane reports, “A beta of the upcoming release, distributed to testers this week, packs a completely redesigned interface for windows and dialogs, making them even easier to manage and more appealing to the eye.
“Another major enhancement in the new version — labeled Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 — will allow a pre-installed Apple Boot Camp partition with Windows XP to be used as a virtual hard disk drive. Users of the software will be able to boot from that Boot Camp partition directly from within Parallels Desktop, forgoing a restart,” Lane reports.
Lane reports, “Another long awaited feature slated to make its debut is ‘seamless drag-and-drop’ of files and folders between Windows and Max OS X. Along the same lines, a feature called ‘coherency,’ will display Windows applications as if they were Mac ones.”
More details in the full article here.
Parallels Desktop for Mac: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/
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Way cool. Do I understand this correctly? Does that mean only one copy of windoze is needed when having both Boot Camp and Parallels installed? I know you needed two copies before.
Could this Boot Camp integration be more along the lines of what Apple will be doing with Leopard?
“Users of the software will be able to boot from that Boot Camp partition directly from within Parallels Desktop, forgoing a restart..”
How will that impact performance of games.. It sounds like too many layers of processing.
I just hope the new version is free to existing users. Parallels is the best software I’ve purchased in a long time. Too bad I have it just so I can use the worst software known to man.
It will be a free upgrade for us users. It says at the very bottom of the full article.
It will be a free upgrade for us users. It says at the very bottom of the full article.
It will be a free upgrade for us users. It says at the very bottom of the full article.
According to the post on the parallels forum, this update will be free to existing owners. The rate of progress the Parallels team is making is amazing. A great product.
Parallels is veyry cool. Just set up my first install of it. It is freaky running Winılows on y Mac…but on the rare instance I need windows…boom it’s right there. very cool.
And when I show Mac or Windze users…they all see the light. Why not just buy a mac and run both. Awesome.
That means you’ll only need one install of Windows on your Mac, not the separate installs you currently need, each for Parallels and Boot Camp.
ping, if you want to play games, you’ll still need to use Boot Camp.
I just hope I can finally get my printers working in Parallels. That’s been a pain.
Yes, that sounds like only one windows install will be needed, shared between Parallels and Boot Camp. Perfect. Now, most apps can run through parallels, and when you need the real deal (games, midi, etc) you can reboot.
That’s how it oughta be.
ping: unless they do something totally revolutionary, you will still want to boot natively into Windows without using Parallels to play games. I believe it will be that way for some time. Still, all these new features are great! Been really looking forward to this! I didn’t think it would happen so soon!
Sniff I wanted video to be a bit better so I could run Hearts in Vista 🙁
For me the only reason to have parallels near my Mac would be to show Win users and stop them in their tracks.. no desire to make myself cross and angry going into XP, but I accept it must be useful if you have to.
Similar to Macaday the only reason I have Windows is to show windows users that my Mac running windows (in BootCamp) is faster than their PC. The stunned look on their face when they try it is priceless. I should start taking photos.
The only other reason is for my son to play some games with his friends.
Happy St. Nicholas everyone
Here’s an idea for a killer app.
Remember the software that comes with a Western Digital hard drive that let you install a new WD hard drive in you computer and then clone your old hard drive over to it? You reboot and it’s like your old hard drive just got bigger.
What if you could clone an existing PC hard drive into Parallels? That’s my big hold up on totally dumping my last PC (we have two Macs) – I want to duplicate it on a Mac under emulation without trying to reinstall everything.
Make something like this work and you’d have people dumping their PC’s for Macs in even greater numbers than they already are.
Magic word: days – as in Windows days are numbered.
I am SO happy I bought Parallels for $49 a few months back. In fact, it may be the greatest software purchase I’ve ever made. It just works. And the fact that all this new functionality is being released as a free update is amazing.
Thank you!
Does anyone know the specifics on how one can implement 64-bit Linux on MacPro hardware, with up to 16GB RAM for very large datasets? (eg. has 64-bit Suse been tested yet?) Is it possible via Parallels, and if so, is there a performance drop? Any tested non-Parallels solutions? Have package developed on Suse, but prefer not to run this on Opterons. Interested in high performance MacPro solutions … not really interested if it is possible “in theory”…
Does anyone know the specifics on how one can implement 64-bit Linux on MacPro hardware, with up to 16GB RAM for very large datasets? (eg. has 64-bit Suse been tested yet?) Is it possible via Parallels, and if so, is there a performance drop? Any tested non-Parallels solutions? Have package developed on Suse, but prefer not to run this on Opterons. Interested in high performance MacPro solutions … not really interested if it is possible “in theory”…
Does anyone know the specifics on how one can implement 64-bit Linux on MacPro hardware, with up to 16GB RAM for very large datasets? (eg. has 64-bit Suse been tested yet?) Is it possible via Parallels, and if so, is there a performance drop? Any tested non-Parallels solutions? Have package developed on Suse, but prefer not to run this on Opterons. Interested in high performance MacPro solutions … not really interested if it is possible “in theory”…
It would be really nice if the morons at Parallels would figure out how to print properly to USB 2.0 printers first, before branching off into new territory. The forums at forums.parallels.com are filled with people who can’t print — suckers like myself who bought the software and can’t print at all. Parallels is horrible.
Go Parallels!
Hmm, I can print just fine in Parallels. All I did was install Bonjour for Windows and it sees every printer on the network just fine.
I think “coherency” sounds brilliant, if I understand it properly… it’s saying it makes Windows applications sort of like Classic, right?