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Parallels Desktop for Mac -- the software that lets Mac OS X and Windows coexist side-by-side on Intel Macs -- has been improved with USB 2.0 support and other changes in its new beta 2 release. more

[Nobody]

Parallels Desktop rocks!

[veggiedude]

I sure hope it is featured on stage at the MacWorld EXPO Keynote. It deserves to be there.

[elCapiton]

Cool. The feature I really want is to be able to create a boot camp partition from an existing Parallels virtual machine. That' would be great! I know you can already do the reverse but it would be awesome if you could do that.

[cpotter]

I am new to Parallels. Is it true that you can use a bootcamp install of xp with parallels? I have not found any data on parallels website about this.
cp

[booga]

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isynchronous devices

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I believe the technical term is "isosynchronous", in which a portion of the bandwidth is reserved for a specific application. It's kind of like the protocol equivalent of "real-time" operation. (Isosynchronous device support was a big selling point in the original FireWire, so they added it to USB 2.0.)

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I am new to Parallels. Is it true that you can use a bootcamp install of xp with parallels? I have not found any data on parallels website about this.

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This is true with the more recent betas, but not of the current officially reported release, I believe.

[chewygoat]

Anyone played with beta 2 much yet? The features in beta 1 were great, but I found it really unstable, unlike the release version. I got frequent application crashes. I reverted back to the release version as a result. Is beta 2 any better?

[daneb]

I didn't use beta 1, I've installed beta 2 and it seems a bit unstable still. I like the new features. One major problem exists: When I try to go to full screen on my second display it works for a second then flashes and go full screen on my main display instead. It worked flawlessly in the release version (build 1970).
--17" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz, 2GB RAM
UPDATE: Reverted to build 1970. It was still too much of a beta for my liking. I hope they make some serious updates before making it a final release. The Coherence is really nice, but it needs some serious tweaking.

[veggiedude]

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I am new to Parallels. Is it true that you can use a bootcamp install of xp with parallels? I have not found any data on parallels website about this.

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These new features are part of the public beta, and as such, would not be listed until it is officially released.

[iron_chef]

i hope this doesn't give MS any ideas like scrapping the mac versions of all their apps.
just speculating here.

[Machound]

Oh, as if Microsoft weren't already scrapping Mac apps one-by-one? The writing is on the wall... notwithstanding last year's keynote fanfare.

[frankie]

Someone at Macworld has VERY different priorities from all the Mac users I know. Full BootCamp compatibility is WAY more important than USB 2.
It's as if the newspaper from April 9, 2003 put a big headline saying "US Army foils Taliban raid in Kandahar" and then at the bottom of the page they say "By the way, they also captured Baghdad today."

[d00d]

You must have missed the story about the first beta titled:
Parallels beta works with Boot Camp partition
I suspect (as I don't know because I didn't write the story) that rather than repeat, noting features new to this particular beta version are more informative.

[Machound]

Different priorities for different people. I'm so glad I bought Parallels when I did. $30 while it was still in early beta was an astonishingly good deal!