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- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Parallels has been a really good company as far as customer support goes, they deserve a lot of respect for what they have gotten done since they launched the product.
Still waiting to see improved DirectX support though... - Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Yeah....not really the same thing at all. Sorry.
- scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I managed to into their forum and someone posted 2 mirrors.
http://www.wittrodt.com/Parallels_Desktop_3186_Mac_en.dmg
http://www.stupbi.de/Parallels_Desktop_3186_Mac_en.dmg - Flawless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Direct link : http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/
It says on the page "Build 3186" and is dated Feb. 27th 2007. - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17@pixelbender
If you'd read the blurb and the article you would have seen that Ireland is saying he /she already has a license, and thus gets the upgrade for free.
Nothing about piracy had been implied. - maclaxguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The second bullet on the article:
Windows Vista as a guest OS
While Parallels supports it, I don't know that Boot Camp does. - scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Any mirrors of the build? Site is very slow for me.
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And why is your grammar and punctuation so goddamned horrendous?
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I second that thought, just run the Mac client instead of the Windows client. It will work much, much better.
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Imagine if MS acquired parallels"
I agree, not a good prospect. Apple should acquire this product before Microsoft snatches it and kills it. - threepio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Apparently it's build 3186 which should be released at some time today
- cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@cromer: Just a question from a casual WoW player, but why can't you use the Mac client? It's working fine for me even on the Macbook @ 1280x800, and comes on the same discs.
- the_snitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is great - I just bought a retail copy of parallels 2 days ago, and was concerned whether they would charge me over the upgrade. I figure I may as well support the parallel dev team, they have been working so hard on ironing out bugs and new features.
Imagine if MS acquired parallels (like they did Connctrix Virtual PC), and then we had to sit and watch the software rot until final withdraw from the mac market *shudder* - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Ok, I tried creating a new VM in Parallels, and in the wizard, selecting Vista as my OS. The 'Use BootCamp' option is greyed out if you select Vista though, so I went back and chose Windows XP, and then selected 'Use BootCamp' for the hard disk option.
The VM tried to start, it asked me for my OSX password a couple of times, but then it just bombs with an error. So, no luck so far. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated, I'm pretty new to Parallels :) - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Only the Home versions, and even then, there's no technical limitation to doing so, just a line in the license saying 'you can't do this'. Up to individuals whether they ignore it or not.
- hypermatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Coherence is nice to make seamless editing with Vis studio ;) but the lack of 3d is dissapointing
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Crazy thought -- read the article. They quote a Parallels PR person regarding 3-D acceleration.
Or, if that's too much work for ya, or the link is down: "We're working on 3D graphics acceleration—we know it's really important to our users. But we wanted to get Coherence out there as a final version as soon as we could, because running Windows apps seamlessly on the Mac desktop is just so cool." - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3NOTE: I've noticed since posting that my Boot Camp partition has disappeared lol. Don't follow my instructions! ***** :D
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with them about getting Coherence out.
And when they do come out with an update that includes real DirectX support, I would not mind paying a small fee for that upgrade (which is I think another reason they wanted to separate out the releases). - TheRealDeal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Parallels is working fine for me on my MacBook. I heartily recommend it!
- darreln, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7No. that would require hardware acceleration and DirectX 10, which Parallels does not support.
- efree58, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really think that Parallels team is doing a great job, at least from my perspective as a mac user, but I can still live without it. I will wait to buy it until I can play some games without having to use bootcamp. Once they do that they will earn my $79.99
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Worked fine for me, and I'm using the trial (European user). Coherence is an amazing feature, I must say.
[edit]Make sure you've installed Parallel Tools in your guest OS, I think they're needed for Coherence. - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just googled and found an old digg comment from : http://digg.com/apple/Parallels_Coherence_Screencast
if anyone runs across this, for future reference, what needs to be done is this: go to actions> install parallels tools... then , if nothing comes up, go to "my computer" in the virtual machine and double click on the emulate drive that has the parallels tools mounted. This should bring up the screen to install them. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Thanks for the defence 'halley'. He indeed has a licence. So that's AppZapper, ViddyUp and now Parallels I've got for free. And that's all without breaking one law or messin' with my karma, great!
- cromer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is the lack of 3D support in Parallels the reason why I can't run World Of Warcraft? I keep getting this error when I try to open it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71092198@N00/404986363/
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3SWSoft already acquired it...
- scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Heres more from their forums.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qbklus
http://ns1.zero-spam-tolerance.com/~zerospam/download.html - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh yes, I hate hard working developers who provide an astounding product as well as superb customer service. If the awesomeness of Parallels doesn't get you to pay for it, your support for these guys should.
- jocamero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's a link to a fast mirror: http://parallels.nfshost.com/
I was getting > 1 MB/sec just a few minutes ago...
It's now installed and running great!
FYI: It appears that the Parallels site has died. =( - Syndrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1:( My activation key cannot be used with the current version of Parallels Desktop. Probably my own fault for buying off Amazon, all I can hope for now is if the devs do an automatic update and I can pick it up that way.
- Stirk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tobark
It is only against the EULA if you are not using Vista Ultimate - abeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the User Guide:
Now, you have the opportunity to install Kaspersky Internet Security program in your Windows XP/Vista guest operating system. Click Actions ->Install Kaspersky Internet Security in the menu. Half-year free subscription for antivirus database updates. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gosh, have some patience, really. 3D is difficult to do and takes time. I'm not that impatient waiting for desktop linux to arrive.
- jackmaninov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How new is the transporter feature? Today is the first I've heard of it, and it sounds pretty sweet. Not for a power user of course (who want's their crust old windows install) but if it's easy for a basic user to use (like copying everything over a network or somesuch) it would be great.
Especially if it will pick up your existing windows license :) - sparks2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I can confirm that running parallels on the bootcamp partition works flawlessly. Haven't tried Vista.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@maclaxguy: Boot Camp supports Vista (not officially, but it works flawlessly), and Parallels supports it as a guest OS, but there's no mention of it being able to boot from a partition.
I might see if I can figure it out... I just don't want to screw up something if it doesn't work (I've heard the boot camp features of parallels can go badly wrong). - AimTech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I installed it in 15 minutes. It found book camp and everything works perfect.
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't get to parallels.com at all...
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think parallels website died...
- bmobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As far as I know, they (the Parallels team) has said that 3D acceleration support is coming soon. This support would, of course, enable Aero.
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I tried Version Tracker and MacUpdate and both seemed to be hosed right along with the main parallels site. It's kinda funny that their site is buckling under this load... You'd think they would be better prepared.
- BabyGotMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmmm...looks like this version includes a full version of 'Kaspersky Internet Security'. Let the bundling begin!
http://babygotmac.com/a/173 (screenshots and download) - Stark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1update: check out forums.parallels.com for a list of mirrors.
:) - bmxboy661, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2come on!
someone who has got the dmg, upload it somewhere! - moogoo71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the mirror! It's working great.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Strange... Is there a limit on it? (Like Norton 90 day trials on new machines). I highly doubt they're going to give away a $60 program to every Parallels user for unlimited machines.
- paradexes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They may have SOME cool features but how trustworthy are they when they say this http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/08/wwdc-wrap-up-part-2-vmware-is-in.html
And have not delivered on it all. They talked about 3D and they have that so release out now. Note the date of the post. Oh and this was a month ago
http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/01/ask-ben-anything-linux-resolution.html
Parallels 2.5 IS a major upgrade version. So where is 3D? They said 3 times in the next release. That release is here and 3D is nowhere to be found. - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I could never get the Coherence button to work in the betas I tried. Is that because I used a trial key?
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!! - RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Still can't boot from a native Windows HD? Still a hel-of-a bang for the buck though.
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