- #PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC 4.0 FREE UPGRADE MAC OS X#
- #PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC 4.0 FREE UPGRADE UPGRADE#
My MAC OS X system crashed (due to trying to run both Fusion & Parallels the same time), I brought it back up and a Fusion virtual machine wouldn’t boot, it gave an error. It was very slow overall (really impacted the MAC side when all 4 VMs were running once), and one would hang during the Solaris X86 install. I installed 4 virtual machines that run at once (on a Mac Pro). I was using Parallels 3.0 and then tried Fusion 2.0 because I wanted the 64-bit and multi-CPU support. I’ll wait to see what the reviews say about the new version’s stability before recommending it to anyone, though. Parallels pioneered the Windows-on-Macintel market, and is still kicking out innovative products and spurring the market onward. That was a very nice early Christmas present this year.
#PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC 4.0 FREE UPGRADE UPGRADE#
Also, as mentioned the upgrade from Fusion 1.0->2.0 was free. But despite it all, VMWare is just rock-solid, and Parallels (at least in previous iterations) has not had nearly as good a record. Parallels’ newest version has some nifty stuff that Fusion doesn’t, most notably hardware-accelerated OpenGL support (they both have DX9), the ability to use removeable media from both OSes simultaneously, and the ability to browse files on/from either platform seamlessly (Fusion lets you browse Mac files on Windows but it’s very slow, and it can browse Windows files from the Mac only when the Windows VM is shut down).Īll this is really nice and enticing. Users who purchased version 3.0 on or after 1 September 2008 are eligible for a free upgrade. Verson 4.0 is available now for USD 79.99, with upgrades USD 39.99. You can also manage your VMs from your iPhone.
Coherence has been updated as well, so that Windows programs are added to the Mac OS X dock when you switch to Coherence mode.
The company also did some visual tweaks, such as adding a feature called Modality, which – as far as I understand from Parallels’ website – means you can get an overview of all your virtual machines using Expose. The company claims a 50% performance boost over previous versions. The new Adaptive Hypervisor automatically shifts system resources around between the host and client operating systems to optimise performance, while you may allocate 8GB of RAM and up to an 8-way CPU to Parallels. People using Parallels to virtualise Windows will see a boost in 3D graphics performance thanks to support for DirectX 9.0, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0. Version 4.0 comes packed with new features and improvements. Parallels allows you to run several operating systems ‘on top’ of Mac OS X, similar to VMware, Qemu, and other similar tools. Yesterday, Parallels unveiled Parallels Desktop 4.0.
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