- #PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS FOR MAC#
- #PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS INSTALL#
- #PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS UPGRADE#
- #PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS BLUETOOTH#
Parallels 8 certainly started much faster than version 7 did. Parallels’ press release claims a 30% increase in I/O operations and games performance, and a 25% speed gain when operating the virtual machine (booting, suspending, restarting…).
#PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS UPGRADE#
Most users will upgrade or buy Parallels Desktop 8 for speed.
#PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS FOR MAC#
With the right hardware in place, Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is said to support Retina displays and full screen second-display PowerPoint presentations using a special wizard. It took a bit of guessing before I could work out which swipes launched the sidebars in Windows 8.
Gestures were useful with Windows 8 Preview. It should have notified me of new email coming in and it didn’t. Notification Center integration didn’t work on my system.
#PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS BLUETOOTH#
Other new features include the ability to share Bluetooth connections between Mac and Windows, integration of Windows Notifications into the OS X Notification Center and Mountain Lion gestures for Windows apps. Even then only some of the Windows 7 apps showed up in LaunchPad, and only randomly did Mac apps show up in the Windows Start menu. To make this work (more or less) on my system I first had to restart OS X, switch to Parallels, then switch to Coherence mode and launch every app. When the virtual machine is allowed to exchange data fully between Windows and the Mac (a Preference you can set), Mac apps should load in the Windows Start menu, and Windows apps in Mountain Lion’s LaunchPad. The integration with Mountain Lion’s LaunchPad was less successful. This works well, both in Coherence mode and when Windows is running inside the Parallels environment. In Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac you can drag and drop files from the Mac desktop on the OS X Dock icons for Outlook and other Windows email clients to attach and share them. Of course, it also works in Coherence mode. It’s as if you are dictating to a Mac app, even when Windows lives in its own Parallels environment - a strange experience. I told the Windows equivalent of Stickies that “I should be able to dictate in Windows through Parallels Desktop 8,” and it turned out I could.
I deduced this because the problems disappeared when I ran all my apps in the one default OS X Space.įor my first test, I activated Mountain Lion’s Dictate and switched to Parallels with Windows 7 running. In this reviewer’s experience, Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac doesn’t like OS X Spaces feature. Starting up Windows 7 from the list immediately invoked a kernel panic on my OS X system, involving Mountain Lion’s hypervisor and I/O kit.Ī fresh startup fixed the problem but it introduced another one. At the very least, Parallels Desktop 8 should allow you to opt-out of this extension being installed. Given the problems you can encounter when using Safari extensions, I was not amused. That extension lets you switch the page you’re currently viewing between Safari and whatever version of Internet Explorer your virtual machine happens to be running. It also adds support for such Linux flavors as Ubuntu and the upcoming Microsoft Windows 8.Īfter installing, Parallels dumped a Safari extension on my system without asking or warning. That’s a plus. Parallels 8 supports Google Android, Google Chrome and Apple OS X Mountain Lion.
Note also that the list of supported operating systems is longer in this release.
#PARALLELS EQUIVALENT FOR WINDOWS INSTALL#
As with previous versions, the system lets you install new virtual machines from within Parallels Desktop 8. If you have a virtual machine from a previous installation, it will show up in the Parallels Desktop 8 Virtual Machines list when you launch it. Installing Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac takes about four minutes. It integrates Windows applications with OS X seemlessly - and it works nicely with the latest features of Apple OS X Mountain Lion. As it always has, Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac lets you run Windows and Mac applications simultaneously in virtual machines without rebooting.
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