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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Parallels Rocks!, 2007-03-08
They could not have made installing Parallels or the guest operating systems more easy!
The set-up worked great the first time out and the total install (including XP Pro) took about 2 hrs.
*Notes:
~ You can share one or more folders between all OS's residing on your machine.
~ Worked well with 1 gig ram, but I moved to 2.
~ Using a dual monitor set-up is perfect for running a dual OS, XP on 1, OS X on the other.
~ For seamless movement between OS's as they are working, INSTALL TOOLS.
~ Don't forget to install an anti-virus.
I run this on both of my MAC's and have since rid myself of my last PC!
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Good service!, 2007-02-22
I got this from an affiliated vendor and received the product intact (no box) and working. It works fine on my wife's Macbook. I had a few small glitches with installation, but was able to work them out myself. My wife is now able to run Windows XP Home on her Macbook at acceptable speed! I never tried connecting my copy of XP in Virtual PC to the internet, but this installation with Parallels seems fine!
14 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
 Causes crashes; the "fix" erased my hard drive, 2007-02-21
I'm now performing a clean install of the *Macintosh* operating system in order to recover from the use of this product. I can't recommend it for anyone other than a programming expert.
After a few weeks of satisfactory use, the software started causing crashes, not of the Windows virtual machine, but of the host Macintosh system. The crashes came at an accelerating rate: the first crash after 30 minutes of use, the second after 15, the third after 5, and so on. Two days of searching message boards yielded a fix, of sorts, and I was able to keep the virtual Windows system stable for about an hour.
Their support staff made things worse, however. I phoned their support line a full week after not receiving a response to my e-mail. After an hour and fifteen minutes on hold, I was instructed to perform a re-install of Parallels Tools and a system repair of Windows. However, the instructions led to a clean install of Windows, thus erasing all application installs, user settings, Windows updates, antivirus updates, and data.
Also, increasing the size of the Windows partition is a complicated process involving third-party shareware.
To be fair to the Parallels team, what they are trying to do is programmatically difficult. It's possible that the changes I made by following the partition instructions or in the use of the Macintosh led to the Parallels crashes. But an average user will not have the expertise to avoid these pitfalls. The product is just not ready for general use.
8 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Great product -- Windows on Mac, 2007-02-16
I recently purchased this product. I've been in the windows realm for over a decade, and have used PCs in my career as a windows server administrator. However, my motto in business has always been to "use the right tool for the right job" and am therefore not stuck on MS products. Just getting into Macs, I needed something to run all the Windows software I own, as I didn't want to fork out hundreds of dollars more to purchase the Mac version when I already owned a copy. So I spent the money on this great product, only to find out it didn't appear to allow you to use the Upgrade version of XP.
After some choice words, I decided to do some research of my own and try different things like I do for my job. Hey, it isn't always in the manual nor is it always straight-forward. So I decided to try a typical installation, which asks for the installation key up front. It goes along starting the installation when it finds no previous version, and asks me to insert it into CD. After some more fumbling around, I realized that I could release the CD-Rom control back to OS X, eject my XP CD, put in my NT Workstation CD for upgrade verification, return control back to OS X and eject again, and finally put the XP CD back in to let the install continue. The only caveat is that I had to call MS to state that I was re-installing this CD. This allowed me to not waste the XP Upgrade CD I already owned (and aren't using on any PCs) on my Parallels disk. It works great. Please note that you do need to have lots of RAM. I have 1.5GB of RAM, and I supply XP 768MB per the recommendation to not allocate more than half your ram. It runs windowed or full screen better than my PC (it darn well should when it has 2-3x the horsepower under the engine on my "ancient" 3 year old PC).
Definitely worth the money and definitely worth trying to get it to install XP with a copy you already own than to spend the money on a full version.
3 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Great virtualization software for Mac, 2007-02-14
I have been using parallels on a mac mini with windows 2000 for about two weeks. When the mac mini had only 512MB of ram, parallels slowed down the mini so that it could not really run very well. Only Parallels could run under that circumstance. But when I got maxed out the Mini to 2 GB of Ram, well, it stops at nothing and even Parallels cannot slow it down. In fact, parallels runs windows and its programs very well and very fast. It is easy to set up, run and connect peripherals to.
This is a great program for those of us who still want/need to run a few older windows programs. I use it to run some Logos/Libronix bible/theological software which is not written for Macs. Do not want to lose my investment or the ability to use and search these volumes. Logos promises that they are working on writing for a Mac, but it seems to be taking forever.
In any case, GREAT program. Easy to use and fast.
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