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| From: Nova Development US
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.93
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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:
 Coherence! February 13, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
After 16 years of using PC's and always wondering why anyone would buy a Mac I finally made the conversion after I "had had enough" of windows.
I am a business owner and I rely heavily on Microsoft Office, with most of my reliance on Outlook, Word, and Excel. I looked at the Mac version of these programs and they are just not the same and cannot do what the Windows versions do. I researched for many days and many long hours and had many more hours of debate with PC advocates before I made my decision to part ways with my PC.
While I was researching my options I figured my best bet at having the best of both worlds would be Bootcamp, especially since Apple will be including it in their next OS release; Leopard. My plan was to get Parallels and make the most of it until Bootcamp was out of Beta and in full operation with Leopard.
I purchased a Mac Pro and with it a copy of Parallels. After initial installation I found it to be a good program with some limitations and but it had a very good rendition of "the best of both worlds" by running both OS's; I could do all of my business operations without too many problems.
Then I updated to the latest release of Parallels that has Coherence! This was a changing point in my view of this product and at this point I could care less about Bootcamp and what it has to offer! My desktop now displays both OS's seamlessly, I can run every MS Office program and every OS.X program side by side on my OS.X desktop!
I was giddy like a little school kid when I first ran Parallels in coherence mode. After 16 years of computer use I had finally found the "best of both worlds", I was now running the best of both OS's on one system!
Are there still issues with this program? Yes. I only gave it 4 stars because there is room for improvement and I have a strong feeling that the next full version of Parallels will address these and truly have a seamless crossover program. But, I can cut and paste between OS's, I haven't found a program or project I can't complete.
If you are still using a PC.....get with the times my friend! If PC makers and Windows are not scared of Apple right now, they should be....they should be very, very, scared!
 just wish it worked as good with linux. February 8, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
ok if your going to use any version of windows this is the best product out there right now. however if you want to use any version of linux or unix im sorry this app is just not there YET. basically linux is unuseable with paralells a little better performance when using fusion(vmware product) but neither are perfect. so unfortunitly if you want linux i would make a partition on your drive and do it that way its just not useable in paralells at all. you can't even install the paralells drivers in linux.
Great product! January 24, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have a Core2Duo iMac with 2gigs of RAM. I had no problem whatsoever installing Parallels for Mac. I was up and running in no time. As mentioned in other reviews, having enough RAM is important. With my 2 gigs, I have no problems and XP is very fast. It's nice to be able to go in and out of XP as needed and run it on a quiet machine. Another nice thing about Parallels is that they give you a full product free download to test it out for a month. I intend to use my Mac OSX for most things, but use XP for work webmail and Quicken (the XP version of Quicken is much better than the Mac version).
Two things I'd like to see improvements on:
1. The numeric keypad doesn't work in Parallels so you must use the top keyboard line for numbers entry.
2.Flash drives are not recognized in XP so you must import anything using the shared folder for Mac and XP that Parallels sets up for you.
3. I haven't hooked a printer up yet, but since I use a USB printer like most people, I expect to have problems in Parallels.
These are all things that likely will be addressed in future versions of the software, but are reasons why I give it 4 stars instead of 5 at this point. Overall, though, it's a great product. It blows away the old Virtual PC emulator I used on my old Mac G5 machine. I highly recommend it.
 Works reasonably well; non-existent company tech support January 20, 2007
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
The software sets up a virtual operating system (OS) environment (Windows XP, in my case) where it almost always (I'll get to that) seems that you are on a PC. The problems I've been having is that the virtual environment does not do well with hardware recognition.
For example, Win XP does not recognize that there is a bluetooth card installed on the MacBook. A bluetooth device will work but when I try to load the software for that device so that I can tweak the way the device operates, the software will say that no bluetooth card is on the computer and will abort its setup. The bluetooth device software is checking the device file of XP and the bluetooth card is not found.
When attaching a flash drive into a USB port, XP does not recognize that the device has been attached. OS X recognizes the device first which may prevent XP in the virtual system from seeing the drive. However, even after I "eject" the flash drive in OS X, XP still cannot recognize the drive.
Last, the console window has increased in size by a factor of three and I see no way to make it the smaller size it used to be. The console window is a window that is about 1/4 the size of the screen; you can see the XP environment well enough to work in that window and in OS X at the same time (usually one will expand the console so that the XP window is the entire screen, but other times you may want to make the window smaller). It's a nice feature, potentially.
I'm sure all these issues are resolvable (maybe). However, if you want to call the makers of this software and speak to tech support, it will cost you $29.99! If you send an e-mail asking the question you will not get a timely response. I sent an e-mail 1.5 weeks ago and have yet to hear back. If you go to their website to try to get your question answered, the site has a list of FAQs but no online technical support, such as a knowledge base where one can look for known issues and how to resolve them.
My sense of this company is that it's a group of folks either working in a small rented space or in someone's basement. One of their requisites for being hired into their company (you can find this on their website) is enjoying drinking beer and shooting pool at the end of the day. Nice work culture, but it would be even nicer if they had some sort of customer service above the level of none.
Three stars for the software, zero stars for the lack of user support.
*** Follow-up: 1/27/07 - Another week has gone by with no response after sending yet another e-mail with my questions.
Very Complicated but it works -- Kiss Virtual PC goodbye January 20, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
The program works as stated -- but for anyone but a computer expert, installation and configuration is very complicated. I am a computer expert, and even I had trouble installing the drivers and getting the printers to work. Other things work surprisingly well right out of the box - installed the software and Windows (a separate purchase) and it instantly recongized all of the Macbook Pro hardware, and even recognized the wireless internet!
This company's tech support is virtually non-existant. Three hours of trial and error finally led to the correct installation of the printers. The manual reads like a translation out of a foreign language, so it is not always clearly documented and things are overly simplified...when the manual says "merely go to settings and change your USB port and your printers will install from their original disks" it actually is not explaining ANYTHING and you have no idea what you are supposed to do, what settings you are supposed to go in, and what USB drivers you are supposed to change. E-mails to the support team go unanswered (three days later I still have no response to any of my e-mails that I sent them) and there is no phone number provided - until I finally dug it up through a search online. Phone calls merely go to an answering system.
SO -- user be warned
Once you have it set up it works like a charm, and it is FAST -- nothing at all like Virtual PC which never worked correctly. Because it is so easy to switch back and forth from Mac to PC, you can literally pick and choose wether you want to use the Mac versions of software (such as Quicken and Microsoft Office) or the PC versions.
ALL WINDOWS ANNOYANCES ARE PRESENT -- once installed, the program LITERALLY emulates your WIndows XP desktop -- that means constant and daily balloon pop ups warning you to download and install upgrades, download and install Macafee upgrades, etc etc etc. All those reasons that most of us switched away from MS to begin with --
But for those of us who need to run the occasional proprietary software package, this program works beautifully.
ADDENDUM JUNE 24, 2007: Parallels has released 3.0 upgrade at this point. It incorporates many changes in the software, including the ability to drag files from Mac to Windows and vice versa. It also supposedly improves 3D graphics for games. It does NOT truly emulate 3D graphics, and many games do NOT run on Parallels 3.0, including simple games like Roller Coaster Tycoon II. I would highly recommend that you go directly to their own website to see the compatibility list for games before you upgrade if you want to play them. Otherwise, it is a stable upgrade.
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