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 Parallels Program, 2008-07-27
This is a very powerful program backed by one of the weakest technical support crews in the world. Their offices are constantly closed and the FAQ online is rivaled only by Apple's lack of actual help topics. Don't be in a hurry to use this product and you will find that it does work very well. You will not be up and running in minutes. Plus you must go buy Microsoft XP or Vista to run on this. It would be nice if they were packaged together or at the very least disclosed on the product itself before purchase.
 If only I could get it to work...., 2008-07-27
Hard to review since I've never been able to get it to load properly. Waste of my money.
Maybe if you're an Apple tech this will work for you, but speaking as someone who's had a computer since my first Apple II in '79, this is NOT a good solution if you aren't super apple-savvy. I'm going back to an XP machine because this just won't load on my mac so I can be productive.
 Great Product, 2008-07-25
I choose Parallels because I could convert my old Virtual PC images over, and it did it (thought I hit some weird networking stuff in the transition, I was nothing I couldn't work through.)
As a web developer who uses a Mac, this is the easiest way to test web sites for IE compatibility.
Too many bugs and glitches, 2008-07-21
Installation went OK on my new iMac 2.8 Core2 Duo. Basic functions looked working fine. Internet connection had no problem. However, as soon as you try to do something more sophisticated, it doesn't work at all. Often times it hangs without any obvious reason and only way to get out of the status is reboot. Seamless mode never worked as advertised. No customer support. Forget about drag and drop between Mac and Windows - it will crash. It cannot detect external hard drive that is connected via USB. It cannot even handle Windows automatic update. Can't believe I paid $79 for this piece of junk. Do not buy this product. Their version should be 0.1.7 or something. Not even close to 1.0.
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 Parallels Desktop for Mac - Simply Splendid, 2008-07-20
Parallels Desktop for the Mac has worked fabulously for me. I use it to run multiple operating systems on my Mac Book Pro at the same time.
I need to run Quicken 2008 Home & Business when I'm away from home for my personal and business accounting. Unfortunately Quicken's Mac version does not support business features like invoicing, so I still use the far superior Windows version. Occasionally I'll encounter a web site that requires Microsoft's Internet Explorer too, so with Parallels I can quickly start Windows and get on with what I need to do.
I could just run Windows on the Mac without Parallels by using Apple's Boot Camp. This requires shutting the Mac down and restarting it in Windows, and then shutting down Windows and restarting to get back to OS X. With Parallels I can have both OS X and Windows running at once.
In practice the Parallels solution works perfectly for me except when the Windows program I want to run needs direct access to the computer's hardware. I use video production programs from Serious Magic, who has now been absorbed into Adobe. I use their DV Rack, Virtual Communicator, and Ultra 2 programs, all of which are only available for Windows. These programs use the gpu on the video card for high speed video processing tasks. Currently these programs cannot run under Parallels since the VM only presents a VESA compliant video driver, so no direct access to video hardware is possible with Parallels at this time. When I use those programs that must have direct access to the hardware I use Boot Camp.
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