At 5:00 PM -0700 9/6/06, Greg Merritt wrote:
> Did a little bit of poking around... but it's unclear to me
> whether or not Parallels needs an update to run on the new Core 2
> Duo iMacs.
While Greg's question doesn't seem to have been definitively answered
yet, there were several other news items of signifance today regarding
Parallels Desktop for Macintosh.
- "you can now run Windows Vista Beta as a guest OS ...
Support for Vista is experimental, so you may run into
some device and driver issues ..."
- "support [has been added for running Parallels under] the
developer builds of OS X Leopard ... the next generation
of OS X, due to launch sometime next year."
- the current "build [of Parallels] offers full compatibility
with [Apple's dual core Xeon-based] Mac Pro towers"
For more information, please see the official Parallels blog posting:
http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/09/desktop-update-rc-compatible-with-mac.html
Parallels is a relatively inexpensive (c. $80) commercial virtualization
software package which makes it possible for Intel-based Macs to run
various flavors of Windows, Linux, and other OSes written for Intel
processors. Products such as Parallels make an Intel-based Macintosh
model a flexible platform for running multiple OSes simultaneously.
Parallels is roughly equivalent to VMware Workstation for Windows and
Linux; VMware has also announced
<http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/mac.html> that it is developing a
version of that product for Intel-based Macs.
Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology
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