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Drag-and-drop files between Windows and Mac applications, launch Windows applications from your Mac dock, and do much more with speed, control and confidence. Seamless Simplicity Use Run Windows programs like they were native to your Mac. Setting up Parallels Desktop for Mac is simple and quick.
- Parallels Desktop 11 latest version is an emulation program made specifically for Mac users. It is considered the best competitor to Vmware Fusion Pro and Vmware Workstation; that have very similar features to allow users to run different operating systems designed for windows to work on your Mac computer.
- When your Mac is running Windows using Boot Camp, your Mac is a Windows PC. In order to do this, however, Boot Camp requires you to repartition your Mac's hard drive. In order to do this, however, Boot Camp requires you to repartition your Mac's hard drive.
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How Parallels Desktop turns a Mac into a Mac-plus-Windows PC
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April 22, 2007By Al Fasoldt
Copyright © 2007, Al Fasoldt
Copyright © 2007, The Post-Standard
Emulation is the sincerest form of flattery if you're a computer.
Through emulation, a Mac can pretend to be a Windows PC. A Windows PC can pretend to be a Linux PC. Or a single computer can gird itself for heavy-duty action and pretend to be two or three different computers at the same time, each one running a different operating system simultaneously.
Mac users have gained the most from emulation over the years. Microsoft's monopoly guarantees that some of the software used in homes and offices will never be available for any computers other than Windows PCs. Through emulation, Mac users have been able to run such Windows-only programs as Microsoft Access and Microsoft Outlook.
But the word 'run' -- as in my previous sentence about Mac users being 'able to run' Windows programs via emulation -- is more than a little misleading. 'Walk' would be a better word. Emulation requires millions of software translations a second to work well. But even when it works well, it's slow.
That's why Apple's big switch to Intel computer chips is so important. When Apple computers used their previous kind of chips, running Windows on a Mac meant suffering along with emulation. Things ran so slowly that programs requiring a lot of graphics wouldn't run at all. And games? Forget it.
But Apple knew it would have a market to itself as soon as it could switch all its Macs to a new kind of Intel central-processing chip. The new chip had two huge advantages: First, it was a PC chip, the same kind that Windows PCs used, and second, it was capable of a new kind of emulation.
The new kind of emulation is called 'virtualization.' In a chip that supports virtualization, the computer doesn't have to pretend it's something else. It simply focuses its attention on two or more totally different main tasks -- running the computer's own operating system, for example, while running a completely different operating system at the same time.
In all current Macs, this means the computer can run Mac OS X, Apple's own operating system, while simultaneously running any version of Microsoft Windows.
To make use of this capability, you need to add a relatively inexpensive utility program to your Mac. It's called Parallels Desktop, from from www.parallels.com. It costs $79.
Parallels Desktop has three personalities:
It can create a virtualized Windows PC inside a Mac OS X window. This is the classic way of running Windows on a Mac.
It can let you switch from a full-screen Mac OS X system to a full-screen Windows system. Both computer operating systems are running at the same time, even if one of them is hidden away using this method.
Amazingly, it gives you a simple way of running Windows programs on your Mac desktop alongside Mac OS X programs. In this mode, Windows programs are shorn of their Windows desktop -- they even have OS X Dock icons -- and simply look like drab versions of OS X programs.
This is the coolest software I've seen in years, and could mark the beginning of the end of old-fashioned single-operating-system PCs. After all, if you can buy one computer and get the ability to run all those modern virus- and spyware-free OS X programs while still being able to launch any of your 'mandatory' Microsoft programs, why would you want to choose any other kind of computer?
Parallels Desktop for Mac rocks! I’ve been using it for the last couple of months and it is simply amazing. It is a virtualization program that allows you to run Microsoft Windows on Mac OS X as a virtual machine. It can run several versions of Windows, including the new Vista, as well as other operating systems like Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSe and FreeBSD.
When it comes to Windows, this is really the best of both worlds for me, since Windows is now running as just another application on my Mac, there when I need it, out of the way when I don’t. If it crashes, no big deal, I just relaunch it, while my Mac remains unaffected. Windows is now much faster and reboots are super quick. Of course it is more secure, since Windows is now contained within a virtual machine. If it becomes infected by a virus/malware or exploited, you don’t have to worry about it affecting your Mac. You can also drag-and-drop between Windows and Mac and the Parallels Tools feature keeps your mouse, clock and clipboard in sync with the two operating systems.
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The new beta version of Parallels includes the amazing Coherence mode which allows you to add Windows applications to your Mac dock and well as command+tab through both Mac and Windows applications. There is also a new Transporter feature that makes it easy to migrate an existing Windows install from your PC to your Mac. Plus you can still use Boot Camp with Parallels, in fact you can create a Windows virtual machine in your Boot Camp partition using Parallels.
Parallels has been a great way to try out Windows-only software like Internet Explorer 7, in fact I’ll often use it for browser compatibility testing when I’m making changes to a website. Those pesky CSS and web standards issues on IE are much easier to sort out now.
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It’s so great having everything in the same place, without having to either use a different computer or reboot into Windows. As far as I’m concerned, this is really the best way to run Windows. In fact, I’m in the process of purging my last PC and will be using Apple machines only from now on. Kudos to the Parallels development team. You guys have made my life a much easier and I’m looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us next.