| | | | | Apple Mac users. Imagine running windows like a |
| Why Should you get Parallel Desktop for Mac | | | | native Mac application without rebooting. |
| | | | | Parallel not only gives you free-floating Windows apps |
| A lot of PC users are watching closely on the growth | | | | in its Coherence mode, but it also drops the |
| of popularity on Apple products. Parallels Desktop for | | | | Windows Taskbar atop the dock (or you can move |
| Mac provides an awesome alternative - running | | | | it to the top of the screen, under the Finder menu |
| Windows directly from within Mac OS X. | | | | bar). |
| The developers have tried to create as seamless an | | | | The Parallel includes a set of utilities that lets you do |
| experience as possible, incorporating features like | | | | all kinds of interesting things. There's a migration tool |
| Coherence, which let you open a Windows application | | | | (Parallels Transporter); a program that lets you |
| from the Mac OS X Dock, and SmartSelect, which | | | | browse a virtual hard drive without actually launch |
| lets you open Mac documents with Windows | | | | Parallels (Parallels Explorer); a program for managing |
| applications (and vice versa). | | | | the size of virtual disks (Parallels Image Tool). |
| The benefit of this is it is now possible to run various | | | | New to a recent upgrade is SmartSelect, which lets |
| program like Windows XP or Vista on an Apple Mac | | | | you associate file types with applications on the |
| computer. | | | | guest operating system. |
| With the Parallel Desktop for MAC, it now enables | | | | For example, if someone sends you a Word |
| Apple MAC user to use Windows, Linux, and more | | | | document via Apple Mail, you can use SmartSelect to |
| side by side with MAC OS or any Intel Powered MAC | | | | designate the Windows version of Word to open the |
| without rebooting. | | | | file when you double-click it. |
| There’s a lot of benefits Parallel Desktop has to | | | | You can also reverse this, so double-clicking files in |
| offer and these includes opening windows file with | | | | Windows causes them to be opened in Mac |
| MAC Application and Mac files with Windows | | | | applications. Even for PC gamer, this has been a big |
| Application using parallel SmartSelect. Share files and | | | | breakthrough because for gamers, the biggest |
| folders between Windows and MAC. | | | | advantage Parallels Desktop 3.0 offers is the ability to |
| It’s now possible to browse windows folder and | | | | run games. |
| access files without launching windows with Parallel | | | | Almost all games in the PC space require 3D graphics |
| Explorer. Even running selected PC games on Mac | | | | acceleration, even the casual ones, and up to now, |
| with supports to 3D graphics. | | | | Parallels has not had any 3D graphics acceleration at |
| These key features give a lot more convenience to | | | | all. |