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Parallels Toolbox, an ever-growing suite of handy single-purpose tools that simplify common computing tasks to just a click or two, has received a major update for both Mac and PC users.
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The software they have may be good, but I’m certain their CEO is both an analyst and a therapist! Borisd Oct 6 I can’t afford it. So I am forced to look for a better option. Not wise, Parallells. Good bye! Sir Sep 30 Parallels has forced a change in licensing, our University can not buy a perpetual licence, we must now pay a 12 month “rent” for it.
Its incredibly easy to loose a customer, and once they have shifted, its incredibly difficult to ever get them back. Mcr Sep 28 So I’ve been playing with PD 11 and Fusion 8 for the last month now i’ve been a long time user of both products for many years, and use both professionally and personally.
My observations your mileage may vary, this is just me is that on older hardware, PD 11 is slower than PD 10 on the same setup, where as Fusion 8 is faster than Fusion 7 on the same older hardware old in this case is Core2 Duo macs, not Macs with i series CPUs.
On newer hardware i5’s and i7’s , I don’t notice a difference between Fusion 8 and PD 11 I don’t use for gaming, so not commenting on graphics, just business apps performance. Note this is coming from someone who has used PD primarily for his personally work the last several years, mainly just out of laziness and not wanting to spend time migrating all my VMs fusion.
But now I’m switching over for personal stuff, professionally, still using both, as clients and co-workers have a vested interest in sticking with what they have. Derekcurrie Sep 4 They suggest signing up and watching their email list for notification of when they finally catch up. I’m waiting on updating to version 11 until they, at last, get this together.
There is no sign of VMware supporting DirectX Mcr Aug 24 Windows 8 and higher, no issues. There was no built in USB 3 drivers in Windows 7. Parallels found a way around that; and wrote virtualized drivers. Bottom line, do your research. Grass is not necessarily greener on the other side. From a licensing perspective, i had no issues with PD through version 10, but the new PD 11 user license does have me thinking if the slightly faster speed of running Windows over Fusion is worth all the new limitations in the PD 11 user license.
ChristianPrudHomme Aug 24 Bad faith: Moving Basic features to the Pro edition because “Parallel found out that basic features were well enough for users”.
Virtualization for Linux guests, both available in the basic Parallels last year, are now restricted to Pro version only. Tired of being milked away Masterminter Aug 23 Awful license scheme is holding me back buying. Although I’ve been a loyal Parallels customer since version 5 and find the software actually quite good, I can no longer recommend it.
There is no option for reduced-price extra seats for the Pro version. These abhorrent and customer-hostile license terms are so restrictive, and the lack of any understanding or flexibility on the part of their support team, mean that I have begun the process of moving everything over to VMWare, with excellent performance, unlimited multi-seat licenses for individuals and a crossgrade offer for Parallels customers.
I’ll vote with my wallet, and with this well-deserve half-star for a product-destroying licensing policy. Goodbye Parallels. Not at all impressed. A while ago, VMware offered a sidegrade for users of Parallels Desktop to get the latest version of Fusion for about ten bucks; hopefully they’ll offer something similar in the future.
After having versions 4, 6, and 7 and having them all stop working on me after a few OS X updates , I’m done with Parallels. SegN3rd Aug 21 Besides my feelings about Parallels’ business practices, the fact is that the cost of Parallels plus a license of Windows 10 now costs as much as just buying an HP Stream or a similar competing product. I know these low-end netbooks aren’t as powerful as your Mac, but they also allow you to run Windows without affecting your Mac in any way or using any of its resources, plus they are quite portable.
If you find a good enough sale, you can buy Windows-running hardware for less than the cost of Windows-running software. OhEssex Aug 19 This reminds me of the origin of the expression “daylight robbery” where property taxes were assessed by the number of windows a house had. Mcr Aug 8 There are many posts on the Net about how to install El Capitan beta into Parallels v And bear in mind the following, you’ve been told: 1 the method only works with the Developer Preview of You can leave it off or turn it back after PT is installed, but it must be off to install PT.
It is very clear after all my experimenting with the various methods to install Heck , even between the Developer Preview and Public Beta of Parallels is going to need to make some major adjustments to support painless install of In anticipation of all the bemoaning about another Parallels ‘forced’ upgrade to support El Capitan, just keep that in mind that the devs are simply having to keep up with Apple, which continues its history of making MAJOR system level and core changes in OS X with every release since Lion, Not just the boot and installing functions, but the graphics engines, audio, video, hardware abstraction and so on.
Parallels is not TextEdit, it’s very sophisticated software engineering, that takes development resources to maintain and test, every time Apple makes sweeping changes across the board, all of which comes with a cost. It is not as simple as just changing the ‘supported version of OS X’ from Even the video subsystem in El Cap seems to have been reworked again by Apple.
Screen drawing with Yosemite virtual machine in PD, is slower than in Mavericks, but had improved in the latest PD With El Cap, using the same video driver in Parallels Tools for Yosemite, the screen drawing is very glitchy, and slow, like it was with early Yosemite betas.
Regardless, testing El Cap in a VM is nice. I have El Cap installed natively as well on a partition, but this saves from rebooting between El Cap and my every day configuration.
Bobebop Aug 1 Serial key does not work, webhelp is “down”. I am so tired of this. Noraa Jul 29 Parallels drives me crazy. On the one hand, it is stable, feature rich, and fast. On the other hand, its licensing as absolutely abhorrent. While previous versions do tend to continue to work on newer OS v. Add to the fact that it’s nearly impossible to deactivate a computer once activate installed Parallels on a MacBook Air, activated, a few months later sold the Air and bought a Pro, couldn’t get Parallels to activate since it claimed the code was already in use – took days with Parallels support to get the issue resolved , the licensing system is just terrible.
Now that Windows 10 is out, and it seems to not completely suck, I am hopeful that I can now ditch Parallels and it’s absurd licensing practices for a more sane company in VMWare well, licensing sane, lack of USB 3 support is pretty insane Fvdg Jul 29 Will NOT allow the update to Windows 10! Derekcurrie Jul 26 Again, it’s a messy update. This is not good. Icons on your desktop will be a mess. You may get a screwy screen resolution, although mine reset itself back to normal.
IOW: Updates like this are geek worthy. We’re used to stuff going wrong all the time. But granny will have a FIT. They have to do better. Reelstuff Jul 25 I have been a paid user since version 3 through version 6, Now I can’t even use the software, MAC isolated the software as a “Problem Child” now I just have to wonder, what value is this product when every time you turn around you have to pay an “upgrade” fee?
I see this as a seriously flawed and destructive business model that will certainly come back around, Karma is a female dog I am sick and tired of the nickel and dime failed business model I am moving to another platform that performs better and actually works when my operating system updates. Were mainly talking about 32 bit versus 64 bit here, so really this is a failure on the part of this product and while you may have my money you will never have me as a customer again.
B-Jefferson-Le-Blanc Jun 25 I have to give Parallels high marks this time around. I had been putting off upgrading because, frankly, I don’t need it yet. I couldn’t pass that up either. I hadn’t upgraded Toast since version 8. While 8 still works in Mavericks, I thought this was the best price I’d ever be likely to find on a Toast upgrade. As it turns out, the one I got, version 12, isn’t the latest — version 14 was just released — but it’s still four versions newer than the one I was using.
What really got me posting here was the ease with which I was able to create a Windows 7 virtual machine in Parallels 10 by converting my VMWare Fusion Windows 7 virtual machine; the process left the Fusion virtual machine undisturbed. It went as smooth as you-know-what through a goose. I didn’t even know it would be possible. I had been worried about installing Windows 7 in Parallels given that I am already using my Windows 7 license in Fusion — Microsoft licensing policies set the standard for being difficult to deal with I have been running Windows XP in Parallels.
That, too, was not disturbed. But there were no issues when I started up Windows 7 in Parallels 10 – though it took me awhile to get the settings where I want them. And Parallels started up in Coherence mode by default, which was a nuisance till I figured out what was going on and turned Coherence off.
Very thoughtful. And yes, I have the requisite Windows 7 license to qualify for the free Windows 10 offer. In the meantime, I’ve skipped Windows 8 altogether because, in my opinion, it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Windows 10 should be a lot easier to deal with. You may be asking, why am I using both Parallels and Fusion? Well, I bought Parallels at an introductory discount when it first came out. But a version or two on it became unreliable so I decided to give VMWare Fusion a try, also at an introductory discount.
I moved that to Windows 7 because Win 7 couldn’t easily be installed over XP. Now, of course, I could put Win 10 in either program. Maybe I’ll toss a coin. Nowadays I could run all my VMs in either app, but they keep leapfrogging one another in feature development so I’ve never been able to decide to stick with one or the other. And my early experience with Parallels made me wary of putting all my eggs in one basket. They’ve both gone haywire at one time or another.
So, for now, I’ll give Parallels 10 five stars. Cowicide Jun 2 MacUpdate, this is up to version Mcr Apr 3 YMMV, but I’ve seen a noticeable improvement in speed and ‘snappiness’ with the With the Windows 7 VM, which is also installed on Bootcamp on the same machine, it feels virtually native in terms of response.
Derekcurrie Apr 1 Stick with the previous version until Parallels get their act together. Using the update feature in Parallels 10, I updated to I ended up with a barely working, messed up Windows XP Pro. Among the problems inflicted by this poorly planned update: 1 Windows freaked out that Parallels Tools had installed a bad disk driver.
Windows warned me of the problem and tried to help me get a better picture. I tried and found the desktop image resolution was still awful.
Your new hardware might not work properly. So I wrote Parallels support in detail about the mess they had inflicted. They never wrote back to me. Gee thanks! I wrote to them further about my solution, which was to: 1 Manually download the full installer for This time the resolution problem cleared up and all looks fine.
For putting me through this abysmal update and wasting my time, Parallels earns 2 stars in this review. Well earned. VMWare is calling Prologos Mar 31 Mcr Feb 27 Just learned some interesting trivia and computing history.
It was supposed to be Windows before Windows existed. But Windows 3 sold like crazy MS continued developing Windows. Windows 3. That product became Parallels Workstation and that company became Parallels. With their knowledge and experience gained of how to virtualize Intel x86 hardware, the company saw a market opportunity with the Mac, to run Windows and PC software. And viola, Parallels Desktop for Mac was born. The irony is so wonderful and sweet!!!
And where did the x86 PC hardware start? The absolute twisted-ness of this story is precious. A Chinese company, Lenovo. So the story starts back at a time when the Russians and Chinese were our adversaries, and ends up today where we owe one country for developing Parallels to let us run Windows on Macs, and the other we buy PCs from by the hundred of thousands that bought the PC division from the company that started it all in the first place. Gotta love it!!
The current version is very buggy! Ean Feb 11 It’s hard to review something that runs Windows fairly as it is, after all, Windows. That anything should do such a good job of running Windows in emulation is amazing. I have to set up a lot of DSP hardware using device-specific Windows applications and Parallels has no problem communicating with any of the external hardware I’ve come across, whether it be a serial or network connection.
All in all Parallels Desktop lets you create the virtual machines and lets you run a wide variety of guest operating systems on your Mac OS. It is offline installer and standalone setup for Parallels Desktop for Apple Macintosh. Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. Comments Not working in mac os catalina.
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