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5 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Guest OS's are limited..., 2006-12-03
I was very impressed with the ease of installation of Parallels. I easily had Fedora and Vista RC1 going quickly. No problems on the Macbook (2GHz / 2GB RAM).
However, Parallels only allows for light use of the guest operating system. In other words, works great for internet browsing. I expected to be able to drag files from one desktop to the other in which Parallels doesn't support. You have to transfer through the virtual network Parallels sets up between Mac OSX and the guest operating system. Even 2GB of RAM and 768MB of RAM for Vista wasn't enough for Vista to play an mp3 or movie.
I would expect this program to be more valuable to a programmer than an everyday user. I expected to be able to work with some of the media programs available to Windows users (movie editing, music, dvd rippers, whatever), but found that none of this would be possible.
Give the trial some good time before purchasing Parallels.
2 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
XP aborts, 2006-11-28
I had parallels working just fine for about two weeks, running Windows XP.
It was great.
Around November 11, I received an update to parallels which may or may not have installed (who knows?).
Subsequently when I tried to run my VM, windows XP attempts ot boot up and then immediately stops.
Even in safe mode, it aborts, and returns to the VM.
As others have experienced the "support" provided by parallels is a one-way street. My email went unanswered.
This is a great idea missing something in the execution.
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Try before you buy, 2006-11-24
Update: I am much more fond of this than when I first tried it. It is definitely a geek tool, but I am, after all, a geek. I have an old copy of Windows 2000 running with SP 6 or so, no antiviral because I don't give it network access. It runs the Windows apps I need, like Microsoft Access. It can't handle the children's games unfortunately, maybe XP would allow a bit better results.
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Download the demo version and try it out before you buy. This is not an application for the non-geek. If you're a geek (like me) it's not that hard to install, but the copious documentation is often incorrect. You're better off ignoring the documentation.
It claims to support Win95, 98 etc. I tried Win98 release 2. Don't bother. Seriously. It's a disaster.
XP works far better, but I think the current release has not been fully debugged for the newest Macs. I tried some older children's games -- the older they were the less they worked. They do work on an XP box.
Batteries go fast when running this -- you're best off with a plug.
Remember you need to budget for an XP license, and, if you allow network access, antiviral software.
6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great.. provided the catalyst for me to get a Mac., 2006-11-18
Parallels is awesome, I love it and it is there for me anytime I can't find a Mac version of software that I own or need to own but is only available in Windows.
I don't play a lot of games, but my friends do play low frame rate games in Parrallels with little issue.
You do need a OEM copy of Windows to setup a virtual machine, but once the first one is installed, activated, and updated you can clone and backup that virtual machine and have multiple versions of windows installed, one for home one for work.
I own a Macbook pro and have easily been able to find all drivers for all of the hardware on the Mac so it shows up in Windows under Parallels (many coming from the Apple Bootcamp Disk). I also have Bootcamp installed but do not use it at all after I purchased Parallels unless I want to run a high frame rate game.
The only thing I don't like about it, but is a drawback to any virtual machine, is the space consumption on the hardrive and that Mac Partitions are not accessible from Windows.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Parallels works great, 2006-11-10
I was a PC person until Mac came up with a way to have the best of both worlds. Parallels allows me to work in both platforms flawlessly. I highly recommend it. I can log onto Windows with my new MacBook faster than my husband can with his new Dell.
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