Parallels 3.0 Announced, 3D Graphics Included

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "For some time Mac users have been waiting to see who would bring 3D graphics to a Windows emulation/virtualization solution under OS X. It looks like Parallels is going to be the winner. They have announced an RC of Parallels 3.0, with the final to be available 'in a few weeks.' For anyone else tired of Bootcamp or rebooting to play a Windows game, it look like the solution is finally here; I'm not counting out VMWare entirely. Obviously it will depend on how soon they can catch up, but there is some serious first-mover advantage here for Parallels."

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Parallels? *YAWN*

[Anonymous Coward]

For decades, we Mac users haven't really given a shit what was happening off in PC land. Every few years we'd hear about a new version of Windows, and we'd glance into the abyss just long enough to remind ourselves of Microsoft's eternal cluelessness. Other than that, I think our closest brush with Windows was Word 6, and that was a decade and a half ago.

So what makes Windows suddenly relevant to us now? Who are all these "Mac users" clamoring for aberrations like "Macintosh Explorer"? Are these the same "Mac users" on VersionTracker writing glowing reviews of Firefox and Azureus? Just where did they come from, anyway?

If you're some sort of tragic square who needs to run Windows, maybe you should have thought of that before you bought a Mac. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just round up these so-called "Mac users" and send them all on trains to Redmond.

Re:Parallels? *YAWN*

[ThePromenader]

I've been using mac whenever possible (always at home, sometimes at work) since 1986, and have a very definite reason for needing Parallels - I'm a web-designer who needs to make sure his work is displaying correctly in MS's buggy products. I can imagine there are other trades who need parallels too - gamers and developers, for example - and frankly I don't see how anyone could think that Parallels could exist were everyone disinterested. Not the most insightful of comments, sir.

To slightly change the topic: am I alone in being dismayed at Apple's BootCamp? Even in its first days, I stuck with oh-so-slow VirtualPC until Parallels became a finalised product. I really wonder why Apple thought it normal to oblige a reboot (meaining closing all your work and applications) when one "schwing" could do the trick.