Comments on: Parallels Desktop Reaches Final

By: Yevan

Yevan — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:03:23 +0000

Vista is not supported in the current Parallels release. It will be supported in future versions. They are actively working towards supporting Vista, so it is only a matter of time.

By: Filip

Filip — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:49:10 +0000

I just tried installing Vista Beta 2 with the latest release of Parallels and it gives me an “ACPI Bios” error. I don’t know if its just me, or if Vista just wont run, but I am very sad. I was really looking forward to putting my MBP through some all night gaming. Oh well, I will just have to wait for a fix.

By: Brian Pinard

Brian Pinard — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:46:12 +0000

*drool*

I can’t wait till I have enough money to buy a MacBook!!

Who knows, maybe I’ll get one as a graduation present.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:51:38 +0000

Can anyone provide some feedback of how well the performance is with Vista. I’m sure it will support it but I’ve tried Vista with VMware and it is slooooow. Of course i’m running it on a 1.8 Ghz mobile processor with only 1 GB of ram, but It runs Fedora 5 and XP fine.

By: Crystal Bradley

Crystal Bradley — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:43:44 +0000

I have 512mb of my 1gb set for Parallels. I’m glad to hear that w/ 2gb things run well. I just need to drop the money on more ram. Thanks.

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:15:44 +0000

It depends on how much ram you’ve reserved for the Guest OS. I have 2GB to start with and have 512MB set for Parallels. I can leave Parallels running all day without suffering any sort of hit on system wide performance.

By: Crystal Bradley

Crystal Bradley — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:43:17 +0000

I’ve been using Parallels on my MacBook Pro. My only complaint thus far is that my machine is sluggish when Parallels is running. Would I benefit from adding more ram? I only have 1 gb right now. I guess that is kinda a dumb question, you can always benefit from more ram. I’m also wondering if Parallels Compressor would help as well?

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:39:11 +0000

Purchased early on for quick juants in Windows without the need for a reboot. Remmeber to activate VMTools in order to share files between OSX and your Guest OS. To Constantinos, while OSX users can use Wine to run IE tests within OSX, there are issues with fonts and general setup for the beginner in all of us. Until someone prepackages an installer which anyone can run without worry of going into the Terminal, Wine will continue to pose somewhat of a challenge.

By: weisheng

weisheng — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:31:49 +0000

Can’t wait to get my hands on one of those Intel Macs argh.

By: titanium_geek

titanium_geek — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:55:31 +0000

No Boss! How could I be gaming! it’s a Mac!

By: Constantinos Kouloumbris

Constantinos Kouloumbris — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:37:44 +0000

Looks nice and promising, but if you are interested only in IE then I think wine is the best way to go.