In my years of computing and working in support I know that support forums often contain little positive information about products. Take for example the Apple Discussion on the Mac Book Pro. I know for a fact there are many perfectly fine MBPs out there. I have one. Mine's never given much trouble. Yet when you read the forum it sounds like death and destruction reigns supreme. So I just wanted to take a moment and say that while Parallels for Mac is NOT perfect and it has some flaws, so far for me it has been an amazing and wonderful tool! Great work Parallels! I have dreamed of this environment for so long. A tiny tiny notebook running a killer OS and the ability to run multiple OSes on top of it that all seem to run at close to native speed! I still get the strangest looks when people see WinXP loading up in a window. On a recent flight from Denver to Santa Barbara I had enough space to open the MBP and do some work. Flights these days are sometimes crowded. This one was not. As I booted my MBP I got two looks from the guy across the isle working on his Dell. "Another Mac nerd... Probably an educator!" had to be his thoughts. I'm far from an educator. I work in a very technical medical device control industry. We write software for very complex custom built medical devices. He then glanced over as WinXP booted up in a window on the Mac and he leaned over and said, are you running XP on that? I said, ya... I'm running it in a window. His eyes bulged out. "You can do that!? How!?" I gave him the brief background on Parallels and he wrote the website down. Not just the thrills of showing off. Parallels has allowed me to do 99% of what I need to do in windows! For that it was well worth the $$ to purchase it. Thanks again Parallels. I'm hoping you keep it up and keep us all working on into Leopard and future versions of the Mac OS. Mark
I had a similar experience with a customer and then I used the hot-key cube transition using VirtueDesktops and flipped back and forth from MacOS to XP; it floored him. He went up to Soho that night and got a Mac.
I agree. While my Mac Pro is waiting for the upcoming fix, I VPN to my wife's MacBook Pro where Parallels amazes me with it's speed and stability running WinXP. I can't even look at Virtual PC any more.
With parallels, I have shut off my PC's and do all i need to do on the Mac Mini. I can't totally get rid of PC's because there are education games we have for our kids you just can't get on Mac. Yes, Parrallels is definitly worth It!
I'm getting ready to list my PC on eBay to get it out of my house. I just don't need it anymore. Yay!
About time to see a positive post! It's been great for me too. So far, much of what I have to do is covered with either Mac native or XP in Parallels. I spend a great deal of time in MS Visio and MS Project (I know, there are much better tools out there but that's what we have), and no problems whatsoever. My other XP application is Enterprise Architect for requirements gathering and analysis, and it's XP only. Works great. Any dev work I do right now is in Eclipse running in OSX, so no problems. Parallels is great and has made it possible for me to switch to the Mac, something I have wanted to to for years. Thanks! Mark
