Nova Parallels Desktop for Mac Full
Now it’s easy to run Windows on your Intel
Mac – right alongside Mac OS X
Parallels Desktop for Mac lets you switch back and forth between Mac OS X and
fullscreen Windows XP with a simple keystroke. Or run Windows inside a window
right on your Macintosh desktop.
Now Mac users can run important applications available only for Windows –
programs like Microsoft Project, Access, Money, Act!, Goldmine, Hallmark Card
Studio and more.
Unlike Boot Camp, which requires the user to restart his Mac, Parallels Desktop
for Mac runs Windows simultaneously with Mac OS X. As Walt Mossberg of the Wall
Street Journal put it, it’s “... the best of both worlds.”
Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution that gives Apple users the
ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical
applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini,
MacBook or MacBook Pro.
Unlike dual-boot solutions, in which users must completely shut down Mac OS X
and endure a full OS start-up cycle to access a important application, Parallels
Desktop for Mac empowers users with the ability to run important Windows
programs like Outlook, Access, Internet Explorer and all other applications
without having to give up the usability and functionality of their Mac OS X
machine even for a few minutes.
Run Windows as a Virtual Machine Parallel's
Compressor Technology ensures optimized performance and hard drive use by
reducing the size of your virtual machine by up to 50% or more.
Broad Operating Support Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS/x, eComStation and
MSDOS. Unmatched Ease of Use Install with just a few clicks and configure with
an easy wizarddriven interface.
File Sharing Easily share files between Windows and Mac OS X with a shared
folder.
Support for Dual Monitors At your option, each operating system can have its own
dedicated screen.
No Hard Drive Partitioning Required
Features
- Works on ANY Intel-Mac with
ANY memory configuration with no system
modification. This includes Mac Pro towers with
up to 16GB of RAM, and the full line of Core 2
Duo iMacs
- Solaris guest OS no longer
hangs after suspend/resume
- An improved Parallels Tools
package
- Full support for OpenBSD 3.8
as a guest operating system
- G4U hard disk cloning tool now
works in virtual machines
- Better video output
improvement and acceleration
- Added multi interface USB
devices support (including Windows Mobile 2005
devices)
- Added isochronous USB devices
support (including WebCam devices)
- Keyboard support improvement:
Eject CD key support, left/right Shift/Ctrl/Alt
(Option)/Windows keys difference support
- Added virtual disk cache
policy option: Mac OS X performance optimized or
guest OS performance optimized
- Image Tool fixes
- Optimized disk cache policy
for Suspend/Resume feature
- Windows ME Suspend/Resume fix
- Shared Folders first time
access acceleration
- Clipboard synchronization tool
fixes (unreadable symbols sometimes added during
copy and paste)
- Sound playback and recording
improvement
Macintosh Requirements
- Any Intel
powered Mac (including iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook
and MacBook Pro)
- Minimum 512MB of RAM (1GB of RAM
recommended)
- 30MB hard drive space for Parallels Desktop
installation, plus space to allocate to your
virtual machine
- Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later
Requires one of the following
- Windows XP, 2003, XT, 2000, Me, 98, 95, 3.11 or 3.1
- Any Linux distribution
- FreeBSD
- Solaris
- OS/2
- eComStation
- MSDOS
Here is a partial list of games that have been confirmed to work with
Parallels 3.0 running Windows
- Alien Arena 2007 (OpenGL)
- Baldur's Gate 2 (Direct3D)
- Call of Duty (OpenGL)
- Counter Strike 1.6 (OpenGL/Direct3D)
- Descent 3 (OpenGL)
- Doom 3 (OpenGL)
- Duke Nukem Manhattan Project (OpenGL)
- Dungeon Siege 2 (Direct3D)
- Far Cry (OpenGL)
- GORE Ultimate Soldier (OpenGL)
- Half Life (OpenGL/Direct3D)
- Max Payne (Direct3D)
- Max Payne 2 (Direct3D)
- Neverball (OpenGL)
- Prey (OpenGL)
- Quake 3 Arena (OpenGL)
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein (OpenGL)
- Scorched 3D (OpenGL)Serious Sam The First Encounter (OpenGL)
- Serious Sam The Second Encounter (OpenGL)
- SiN (OpenGL)
- Tribes (OpenGL)
- Unreal Tournament 2004 (OpenGL)
- Warcraft 3 (OpenGL)
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