Parallels releases Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate

Parallels has released Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate (Build 3120).

Parallels Desktop for Mac allows Intel-powered Apple Macs to run Windows on Mac OS X simultaneously without rebooting. Users can use Parallels Desktop for Mac on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, & Mac Pro Towers.

More info and download link here.

18 Comments

  1. So, how long until Parallels will completely do away with the Windows install? Not long I hope. When you can buy a software package for, say, 80 bucks that can do all that you need Windows to do, without the Windows back-end nightmare, then the angels will sing, and the heavens will open before our feet. Can I get a hallelujah!?

  2. Imagine Windows CE on the iPhone:

    “Windows CE has detected a new input device. Please install drivers for your fingers.”

    “It looks like you’re trying to zoom in on a picture. Windows does not support MultiTouch, please use the (fugly) zoom buttons instead.”

    “It looks like you’re trying to make a call. Would you like Windows CE to help you?”

    And so on and so on.

    Windows. Crap for the masses.

  3. @Drunkcheney

    You are not told that there is an update because it is not officially released yet. The last few “updates” that MDN has reported have all been beta versions. When the official app is updated, the software update in Parallels will notify you.

  4. When will Ubuntu 6.06 support be out and does anyone know how to make it use the Windows partition which I made with Boot Camp? Not that I use it that much though, merely for PC games that haven’t got a Mac version (and one wonders why Blizzard gets ever so popular…) and to update my antivirus program to give me the protection Micro$oft should be giving with their hardly-ever-really-operating system…

    Anyways, best wishes for 2007 from Belgium and may Mac OS X continue to take over the world of computing at an even greater pace then the previous years, starting with my family (I could also live with them installing Linux, but then that damn ugly PC would never crash and they would never switch…)

  5. Oops, forgot to thank the people who can answer my question in advance…

    @Bill:
    I always wondered who actually believed the “Windows is a much better OS then/than (?) Mac OS X” crap. From my experience, Mac OS X will beat Windows in any aspect, most importantly user-friendliness and security. I sure am glad to have walked into the Apple store to check out the alternative to crashing without any warning or reason I could think of despite my parents and friends laughing at me. The only thing Windows is good for is running PC games until I saved up enough for a Wii and reminding me what to be grateful for. As Churchill would have said it: “Windows is the best OS, apart from all the others.”

    @the Parallels on iPhone people:
    I can understand that you would like Linux support on iPhone, but Windows on iPhone would be like this:
    “It looks like you are trying to phone a mate of yours. Please go to the Microsoft support page to see if R&D has already developped a bound-to-crash-whenever-you-say-something-interesting-program for this function and download our latest version of spyware. If you want to, you can also download a cool looking program that has absolutely no use whatsoever, apart from taking in space and slowing your system. If you just want to have the virus without the program click ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />.”
    “Windows does not support this hardware. Perhaps in ten years from now, our new system will be supporting hardware as advanced as this, unless we have joined Dell in returning the money to our stockholders because the few not yet using Macs switched to Linux after the public found out how far we are lagging behind the OSes. Meanwhile, this might help you out.”

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