[MW Forums]

Parallels Desktop for Mac RC3 now features XP to Vista upgrade capabilities, more secure drag and drop and Leopard support. more

[mdawson]

Uh, did you forget to add a closing URL tag in there, Peter? The article gets a little difficult to read after the first sentence. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[griffman]

That's fixed now.
-rob.

[pdmarsh]

It would be nice if they could find some way to run Aero graphics, to show off some of the Vista eye-candy with their windows. What's the point otherwise, except to run apps modified to run in bare-bones Vista in the future? XP runs the current apps just fine. Since the point of Parallels is only to run occasional Windows apps, there will be little urgency to upgrade to Vista apps with the older apps meeting the occasional need. With Coherence there's also little reason for the other Vista stuff to be available, since MacOS X's counterpart is perfectly useful.

[NeoX]

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It would be nice if they could find some way to run Aero graphics, to show off some of the Vista eye-candy with their windows

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I hope they do this too, but I doubt we will see it soon. From what I have read, and seen, VMWare has a feature they are testing that allows Direct3D to work in the VM. The demonstration I saw was several Windows 3D games running quite smoothly in the VM. Hopefully Parallels will get this. That sounds like the first step to getting Aero in a VM.

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Since the point of Parallels is only to run occasional Windows apps,

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I think this was true for Virtual PC on PowerPC, but with features like Coherence it seems this is intended for more then occasional use. I use it regularly, nothing occasional about it.
Regards,

[tmedia1]

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From what I have read, and seen, VMWare has a feature they are testing that allows Direct3D to work in the VM. The demonstration I saw was several Windows 3D games running quite smoothly in the VM. Hopefully Parallels will get this. That sounds like the first step to getting Aero in a VM.

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I'm using Parallels every day and I hope Parallels will fully support graphics cards soon. This is will be a HUGE step forward. Parallels engineers are doing a great job with moving this product forward!

[Nobody]

Parallels Desktop is awesome!
Well done!

[bdkennedy1]

Ummm... I thought release candidates were supposed to be feature complete. And considering RC2 had some major bugs, this should still be in beta.

[d00d]

Agreed. The last "Release Candidate" hosed my Boot Camp install. RCs shouldn't have glaring bugs like that left.

[zwei]

I decided to stop using it with my BootCamp partition. I hated having to put in my password every time I tried to launch it. ...it seemed very flakey to me. Although the STANDARD parallels VMs seem to run great. I don't like keeping two windoze installs up to date, but that looks like what I'll be doing for the near future at least.

[MacGeek1955]

I wouldn't want to be an early adopter of Vista even if I had a Windows machine. I know someone who got a new PC with Vista and is trying to put XP on it. It's not compatible with her wireless router. Vista is not compatible with a lot of things, not just iPods.
Apple, there's no hurry to release Leopard. Just make it right.

[macimmortal]

I totally agree. I just installed RC3 and now it takes 4 minutes to completely boot my Parallels XP Pro VMs. I removed the Parallels tools from XP, re-installed them, but it is still hosed. Any ideas?

[Rhywun]

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Ummm... I thought release candidates were supposed to be feature complete. And considering RC2 had some major bugs, this should still be in beta.

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Yeah, RC2 was unusable for me. Love the product, but I'm sticking with final versions from now on /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif