Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels Desktop for Mac has made the breakthrough all
Mac users have secretly dreamed of owning. Parallels has
finally given these laptop users the best of both worlds
by allowing them to run windows on their Mac without
ever missing a beat. People buying a computer always
have had to choose between a PC and a Mac. Countless
discussions have taken place on whether the more
business-like Mac should take precedence over the more
fun style of the PC. Thanks to this mini-miracle by
Parallels, this debate has been rendered moot. Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, using hypervisor technology that works by mapping the host computer’s hardware resources directly to the virtual machine’s resources.
Running this software is almost like waking up one day
and realizing that you speak and comprehend Mandarin
Chinese, fluently. You can drag your files and drop
them, easily, between the two systems. Remarkably, what
you are doing is running windows and Mac OS X side by
side. There is no rebooting that needs to be done, and
you are getting the best of both Mac and a PC on one
virtual machine. Imagine living in a world where you can
now play Call of Duty on your Mac.
This software is easy to install, and it is easy to use.
It is flexible, giving you up to four options to operate
within your machine. The freedom it allows a user is
most welcome. Say, for instance, that you are working on
Snow Lep, and you want to open the Office 2010 Windows;
this software allows you to do so, both quickly and
without bother. You can keep all of your Windows apps
running while you transition over to Mac.
With Parallels, you are making a virtual copy of your
entire PC and putting it on your Mac without
compromising anything. It is as though you are mixing
the colors red and blue, and still getting red and blue.
For the cost of somewhere between fifty and
eighty-dollars, you are saving yourself the cost of an
entire computer system. With this software, you can even
run Windows and Linux on a single PC.
Some users will undoubtedly grumble about the speed that
Windows 7 runs at while using this software. It must be
said that if you upgrade your machine from two
gigabytes, up to four gigabytes, you probably will still
not have enough RAM to use this software effectively.
Most users say that they have had to ramp up their RAM
all the way to eight gigabytes to get the desired speed
to run Windows efficiently, but the outcome is worth it.
If there is one constant complaint among the users
running this software, it is that the technical support
is woefully lacking. One would wonder if that is simply
due to a lack of practice. About.com recently awarded
Parallels Desktop for Mac their 2011 Readers' Choice
Award for having the best-running application for
Windows. Recently, Mac Tech ran a number of tests, and
Parallels beat the competition in each test, 84 percent
of the time. Therefore, it may be understandable if the
tech support find themselves caught off-guard when a
phone call finally does come in.
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