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Parallels revs to 3, adds clutch features
by Ted Wallingford Sep 12th 2007 at 2:00PM
- Parallels' Coherence feature, which lets you use Windows application windows within OS X instead of in a Windows "box", now supports Expose, OS X's zoomed-out, view-all-windows mode.
- Macintosh folders can now be mapped to Windows/DOS drive letters to cut down on navigating (before you had to create a network place).
- Virtual Machine hard disk images can now be mounted to the Mac OS X desktop.
- Windows windows now have OS X drop shadows in Coherence mode.
- The iPhone can be synchronized with the Windows virtual machine.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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mark said 4:19PM on 9-12-2007
I don't know if I would call VMware the "less effective method", considering VMware already has at least two of those features in their current release. In fact, this Parallels release seems to be more of a catch-up to VMware Fusion more than anything.
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murph said 2:36PM on 9-12-2007
"the other, less effective, method is VMWare"
Care to elaborate? From personal experience and a few reviews I've read, VMWare Fusion runs WinXP apps faster than Parallels.
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Steven said 2:40PM on 9-12-2007
I came to leave a comment, but I see that other people have already said what I came to say.
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Paul said 3:03PM on 9-12-2007
"less effective"? Seriously? From personal experience (I run both Parallels and Fusion), the VMWare product offers much better performance when transferring files from the host to the virtual machine. This is very evident when transferring many small files.
As well, the Parallels transporter would not run on Vista, so I could not image a Vista laptop that I was replacing with a MacBook Pro. I'm not sure if this new version (or a previous release) supports it now.
But hey, Parallels has drop shadows, so you can't argue with that.
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Ted Wallingford said 4:17PM on 9-12-2007
I'm not the only one that prefers Parallels:
http://www.phoneboy.com/node/1640
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james 42 said 11:57AM on 9-15-2007
Ted, thanks for linking to a post where the author is unsure which he prefers, very compelling.
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