I just got one of the new Macbook Pros with the fancy Intel Core 2 Duo processor. When I go to install Vista using the 64 bit disk, it complains: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however his CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.
Unacceptable!! It is unacceptable. I have especially bought Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac and Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit after checking the following web sites. I need to use an application on Windows for my work. This page mentions extra that the entire Windows family is supported. http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/ Support for the entire Windows family, any distribution of Linux, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, OS/2 Warp, MS DOS, and more. 32-bit OS are not required in the system requirements for the guest OS under this page. http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/sr/#guest_os I now even think that they intentionally did not mention it in the web site, since VMware supports some 64-bit Vista. Maybe that is why the support team has not answered my question yet, although it promised to reply in 3 days (it's been over a week). I just hope there will soon be an update supporting Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
Buggy I've lost faith in Parallels. The software is now very buggy and I am always having problems with it. It used to be a good product. Maybe VMWare is better... gotta give it a try. Thank God for competition!
