Mac OSx: Parallels 4.0 Review
Many of you are aware that I am using a MAC. I’ve learned much about the MAC and have found some great tips over at EtherealMind.com.
I prefer to use the MAC for Everything! Unfortunatley there are some apps that just have to have a Windows OS. I recently came across a promotion that Crossover Office was running and grabbed it. I can run some Windows Apps with it. Its great, and it was FREE! Still other apps didn’t like Crossover office so I would run them in Parallels. With the recent edition of verison 4.0 it is AWESOME! I actually upgraded, and also threw 2 more gigs of ram in my Macbook and it doesnt even flinch when I run Vista and Ubuntu at the same time! I cant say enough good things about it.
If you dont have Parallels 4.0 I recommend you get it. Its way faster than the 3.0 verison and very User Friendly. You will have to convert any VMs you have the first time you run them, so back them up. I didn’t have any problems though.
I did have an issue with the network, but the Parallels forum quickly solved it with a single command in a terminal window and they issue has not presented itself again.
One other tip I recommend is using spaces to move between the desktops. Use Vista in full screen on one space, Ubuntu on the other and quickly switch between them. As an alternative you could run in coherence mode and just access each open app as though it were running on the MAC itself.
If anyone else is running Parallels and wants to comment on it I’d love to hear your thoughts!
I’ve been thinking about converting to a MAC. That new Macbook unibody design is pretty cool. I’ve been looking at the 15 inch Macbook pro, but I’m having a difficult time justifying the premium to a regular pc notebook.
Let me know what you think. Should I go to a mac?
I was using parallels to run my boot camp partition and it was Very buggy and twice destroyed by XP install. I found VMware much better, but i haven’t tried parallels 4 (i think i switched at 2 something).
@ Colby:
Do it man! Think iPhone x 10!!! I am actually about to buy 2 iphones and a new macbook for my wife. Waiting until Wed though.
@ jason:
Understand. Ive used VMWARE on PC for years. It too seemed buggy, and Parallels 3.0 on MAC was buggy. So far though I’m happy. Thanks for your comment!