appleinsider.com — Parallel, Inc. is preparing to make a quantum leap in the art of Windows virtualization software for Mac with new version of its Parallels Desktop software that introduce a refined user interface and greater support Apple Computer's Boot Camp software. Graphics performance increases of up to 50%, seamless drag-and-drop, tons more features!
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shaun3000Dec 1, 2006
Agreed. There are lots of people who would prefer a Mac but go Windows because of a few programs they can't run on a Mac. Now they've gone Intel and you have a few choices of how to run Windows, to boot. If you are a gaming person you can install it natively and get awesome performance and still have Mac the rest of the time. If it's anything else, even some less graphics-intensive games, run it in a VM. I just switched, now that it's Intel. Windows XP runs in a VM faster than it did on my three-year-old notebook. I have XP installed as my fiancee needs it for her remote admin software for work. And there's always one or two programs that only work in XP. And it sounds like before long games will work in VM just as well as they do natively.It's not that I'm running Windows on a Mac because I CAN, it's because I want a Mac and like having the flexibility of doing a few things in Windows but not having to dedicate a partition to it.
pkulakDec 1, 2006
What the hell are you babbling on about?
bmsonDec 1, 2006
I think your PC is broken or you need some Windows drivers :/
anamanamanDec 1, 2006
Cool... thanks!
blueiglooDec 1, 2006
Good question, I am waiting on an answer until I install the parallels beta..
threemagicDec 1, 2006
The difference is night and day AND apples and oranges.Virtual PC for the Mac was NOT virtualization software.. it was EMULATION software. BIG, big difference.Virtualization apps like Parallels' and VMware do not have to emulate the processor instructions. You lose very little speed and when I say very little I mean less than 5% and even less the more memory you have.
node3Dec 2, 2006
Wow, you're complaining about a program called "WinImages" that uses a function that the *Mac* trackpad doesn't (but any mouse plugged into a Mac does) support?For virtually any statement, you can find some specific counter-example. When you have to scrape the barrel's bottom like that, you don't disprove your adversary, you actually show how right he is (all you disprove is the absoluteness of his statement). In other words, for *FAR* more than 99.999% of the cases, the way Apple implements the trackpad is quite excellent, even if less than 1-in-100,000 Mac users would benefit from a different design.Are you running Parallels? You can set a key combo for "right click" (by default, it's ctrl-shift). If you're using Boot Camp, and can't get right-drag to work without an external mouse, I guess you're going to just have to suck it up. Apple definitely should not degrade the quality of their trackpad for such obscure circumstances. *Especially* since all you have to do is use a mouse (you don't even have to plug one in, just get a bluetooth mouse).If there's no alternative key/mouse-command, and it's still a problem for you in Boot Camp, I'm sure someone will write a small Windows app which will emulate right-drag, if it hasn't been done already (which I'd bet it already has been).
node3Dec 2, 2006
Exposé's "Show Desktop" works just fine for copying from the Desktop to Parallels. Can't get it to work in the other direction, though. Since Parallels is beta, let them know if it's important to you.
node3Dec 2, 2006
You have to install the updated Parallels Tools (Actions -> Install Parallels Tools...).