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Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

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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  1. Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare by MicrosoftRepresentit · · Score: 5, Informative

    MacBooks and MacBookPro's do support right mouse buttons. Tap one finger on the touch pad for left click, tap two fingers for right click (and drag two fingers around the trackpad for scrolling, or zooming with Control pressed).

  2. Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare by SoulRank · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.
    Something tells me your intent to buy the Macbook Pro wasnt put off by the lack of the right mouse button. Firstly the Macbook Pro doenst come with mouse because it's a notebook. Secondly, OSX supports just about any USB 2 and 3 button mice.
  3. Re:Incidentally... by AchiIIe · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a very early beta. Essentially the way they allow one to boot from the "Boot Camp" partition is by adding an extra field in the Boot.ini file and by creating a new hardware profile (mainly used on docked notebooks)

    The beta is far from complete, I just tried it on my boot camp partition and the mouse/keyboard were unresponsive. (Even after installing the given tools)

    Moreover each time you switch between parallels and boot camp Windows is deactivated Thus I have to go through the reactivation procedure each time !!! i've done this about three times already and I'm afraid it'll just stop allowing me to reactivate it (even though it's a legitimate license)

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  4. Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare by bgerlich · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can you imagine IE 7 and IE6 as standalone programs on a KDE desktop?!
    I did, once. Woke up sweaty and screaming.
  5. Re:I Should Write Native Mac Apps...Why? by idiot900 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or let Mac users run our app from Parallels... Not this Mac user. I bought a Mac because I like the way a Mac works. To use your app, I'd have buy a copy of Windows and a copy of Parallels, and then run them - and some people think the Java VM is bloated! And I'd have to deal with the Windows app not being well integrated with the rest of the system. The only way this will work is if there is no serious competition in your market segment.
  6. Re:Incidentally... by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Insightful
    i've done this about three times already and I'm afraid it'll just stop allowing me to reactivate it (even though it's a legitimate license)

    So you have a bought and paid for copy of Windows and they've made you afraid to use it. Seems like there's a moral in there somewhere.