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| From: Nova Development US
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.93
You Save: $35.06 (44%)
New (31) Used (7) from $38.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 282
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 1.5 x 7.5 x 5.2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100722
Model: 23707
UPC: 727298404005
EAN: 0727298404005
ASIN: B000GHIV2Q
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: SAME 2008 RETAIL BOX VERSION 3.0 AS DISPLAYED WITH INTACT (UPC) BAR CODE FOR REGISTRATION,UPGRADE & TECH SUPPORT ELIGIBILITY * CONTAINS ALL PRODUCT LICENSES ,WARRANTIES, REGISTRATION NUMBERS & USER GUIDE * NEED IT NOW? SAME DAY SHIPPING BY A VETTED 5 STAR STAFF THAT E-MAILS YOU A USPS DELIVERY CONFIRMATION NUMBER SO YOU CAN TRACK YOUR ORDER FROM OUR DOOR TO YOURS FOR WORRY FREE TRANSACTIONS!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Causes crashes; the "fix" erased my hard drive February 21, 2007
14 out of 24 found this review helpful
I'm now performing a clean install of the *Macintosh* operating system in order to recover from the use of this product. I can't recommend it for anyone other than a programming expert.
After a few weeks of satisfactory use, the software started causing crashes, not of the Windows virtual machine, but of the host Macintosh system. The crashes came at an accelerating rate: the first crash after 30 minutes of use, the second after 15, the third after 5, and so on. Two days of searching message boards yielded a fix, of sorts, and I was able to keep the virtual Windows system stable for about an hour.
Their support staff made things worse, however. I phoned their support line a full week after not receiving a response to my e-mail. After an hour and fifteen minutes on hold, I was instructed to perform a re-install of Parallels Tools and a system repair of Windows. However, the instructions led to a clean install of Windows, thus erasing all application installs, user settings, Windows updates, antivirus updates, and data.
Also, increasing the size of the Windows partition is a complicated process involving third-party shareware.
To be fair to the Parallels team, what they are trying to do is programmatically difficult. It's possible that the changes I made by following the partition instructions or in the use of the Macintosh led to the Parallels crashes. But an average user will not have the expertise to avoid these pitfalls. The product is just not ready for general use.
 Great product -- Windows on Mac February 16, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this product. I've been in the windows realm for over a decade, and have used PCs in my career as a windows server administrator. However, my motto in business has always been to "use the right tool for the right job" and am therefore not stuck on MS products. Just getting into Macs, I needed something to run all the Windows software I own, as I didn't want to fork out hundreds of dollars more to purchase the Mac version when I already owned a copy. So I spent the money on this great product, only to find out it didn't appear to allow you to use the Upgrade version of XP.
After some choice words, I decided to do some research of my own and try different things like I do for my job. Hey, it isn't always in the manual nor is it always straight-forward. So I decided to try a typical installation, which asks for the installation key up front. It goes along starting the installation when it finds no previous version, and asks me to insert it into CD. After some more fumbling around, I realized that I could release the CD-Rom control back to OS X, eject my XP CD, put in my NT Workstation CD for upgrade verification, return control back to OS X and eject again, and finally put the XP CD back in to let the install continue. The only caveat is that I had to call MS to state that I was re-installing this CD. This allowed me to not waste the XP Upgrade CD I already owned (and aren't using on any PCs) on my Parallels disk. It works great. Please note that you do need to have lots of RAM. I have 1.5GB of RAM, and I supply XP 768MB per the recommendation to not allocate more than half your ram. It runs windowed or full screen better than my PC (it darn well should when it has 2-3x the horsepower under the engine on my "ancient" 3 year old PC).
Definitely worth the money and definitely worth trying to get it to install XP with a copy you already own than to spend the money on a full version.
Great virtualization software for Mac February 14, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been using parallels on a mac mini with windows 2000 for about two weeks. When the mac mini had only 512MB of ram, parallels slowed down the mini so that it could not really run very well. Only Parallels could run under that circumstance. But when I got maxed out the Mini to 2 GB of Ram, well, it stops at nothing and even Parallels cannot slow it down. In fact, parallels runs windows and its programs very well and very fast. It is easy to set up, run and connect peripherals to.
This is a great program for those of us who still want/need to run a few older windows programs. I use it to run some Logos/Libronix bible/theological software which is not written for Macs. Do not want to lose my investment or the ability to use and search these volumes. Logos promises that they are working on writing for a Mac, but it seems to be taking forever.
In any case, GREAT program. Easy to use and fast.
Non existent tech support, unstable software, save your data in a shared file February 13, 2007
This product is dangerous because it seems to work fine and gain your trust, then bam... complete shutdown. I don't know whether Microsoft or Parallels is to blame but I was running Outlook which crashed the XP I was running in Parallels and then when I restarted, an XP prompt said a system 32 file was missing.
So now any data that was in there is trapped and gone forever. If you use this definitley keep your data, like working docs or your Outlook pst database in the shared files on the mac side. I assume that any data tat is in the virtual machine cannot be recovered if it crashes.
I don't know that for sure because after pating $30 for "Priority Tech Support" on a Friday afternoon and it's now Tuesday next week and I cannot get through or have any of messages returned.
Wait until they stabilize this product and get thier tech support team up to a reasonable response level.
 Mac and Windows February 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our office had to find a way to run windows on our Macs without too much trouble so we got this. It was pretty easy to install, I had a few probs. but nothing major. We like it because you don't have to reboot to use it. It's a little wierd getting used to it, but once you do, it's like having two computers!
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