Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put up a great review of the first full release of Parallels' virtualization software for OS X, Parallels Desktop 1.0. From the article: 'Move over emulation, virtualization is in and it's hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. It's no contest, virtualization has it all: multiple operating systems running on the same machine at nearly the full speed of the host's processor with each system seamlessly networking with the next. Add to that the fact that it's cheaper than getting a new machine and you have the guaranteed latest craze. Not even the Hula Hoop can stop this one.'"

Comments

Re:10+ years later...

[SnarfQuest]

But I still love the idea as long as my Linux and Windows can run beside each other and behave, it makes development much nicer.

Linux to run programs, and Windows to automatically download and install virus, worms, trojans, adware, and infect everything with them.

Re:I have parallels running

[Gentlewhisper]

How do you feel about pirating Mac OS X in order to do this? Or do you justify it by saying that you *would* buy it if Apple sold it, but they don't, so you have no choice? (And what if Apple's pricepoint for selling it on NON-Apple hardware was, say, $399? Would that be "too high", so you'd still have to pirate it?)

At $399 it would actually be cheap if you consider the markup they have on some of their inferior overheating mooing and whining hardware.

Re:Where are the comments?

[suckmysav]

According to Cringely Apple has a legal right to use the actual Windows XP API itself due to their 1997 cross-licencing agreement with MS. He claims that he has been told that Apple has long had running in their labs "Intel Macs running OS X while mixing Apple and XP applications."

If he is correct, and OS X 10.5 includes this level of native Windows application support directly within OSX and without the need for virtualised hardware or reverse engineered API translators such as wine then it could actually be a real "Vista killer"