Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop

Verunks writes "Parallels has released a new beta of its virtualization product for Mac OS X. This new release includes one major new feature, something Parallels calls Coherency: "Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS." Check out this Screenshot" More interesting to me is the Boot Camp support so you can have a single partition to run IE7 in Parallels to test compatibility of a website but reboot to play video games that need a little more juice.

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Parallels Vs. VMWare

[mcrbids]

I have to do software development for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux simultaneously.

I came *THIS CLOSE* (holds fingers close together) to buying a Macbook Pro a month ago - it was the lack of a right mouse button and non-native support for Linux that killed it for me.

However, I've been waiting for VMWare to come out with a decent release for OSX - the ability to have a portable Windows install that works on any of the three platforms would just ROCK.

But, with features like this, it seems that Parallels is keeping "one step ahead" of their 300-lb competitor... Features such as this would be TOTALLY AWESOME if VMWare were to come out with it for their workstation product. (Can you imagine IE 7 and IE6 as standalone programs on a KDE desktop?!)

Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare

[proxy318]

I think he's referring to the fact that Intel Macs use EFI instead of BIOS, which makes it tricky to load anything other than MacOS. Bootcamp lets you run Windows, but as far as I know, it's still a PITA to get Linux to run on any Intel Mac.

Re:Incidentally...

[heinousjay]

Yeah, follow the license terms. Of course, you probably meant something completely different.