Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 22:05 UTC
"Parallels' annual update to its eponymous virtual machine software is out today, looking a bit smarter, and promising to be even more seamless than before. A new Coherence mode sees Windows applications skinned with a Mac-like scheme. Dialogues look like Windows dialogues, and there's easier keyboard mapping - so your Windows app can use Apple-C/X/V to cut and paste, rather than Ctrl-C/X/V."
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2005-07-06
I had a pretty bad experience with Parallels 4. Though it worked semi-OK (just slightly stuttery) running Tales of Monkey Island, it was ridiculously slow when performing the most trivial of tasks, e.g. opening the Start menu, opening Explorer... Luckily I didn't pay much for it, as it was part of a MacUpdate bundle--and more luckily, I already had a copy of VMWare Fusion to fall back to.
Ultimately Parallels packed a few slick features, but in comparison to VMWare, it simply lacked polish. That combined with the performance issus--which weren't confined to me, see here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/parallels_four_users_angry/
--and I have no choice but to firmly recommend VMWare over Parallels. Parallels version 5 may be better than 4, but then again version 4 got good initial reviews only to badly disappoint in real life, so I'm not holding my breath.