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There wasn't an open public beta, so no one really knew what to expect. It was no secret that version 4 had many problems on release, and Parallels Desktop 5 did seem to drop out of the sky and onto our desks. The bigger concern, given the short development time for these features, is whether the new stuff has been put through the necessary testing with OS X 10.6. That's really not a long list, and the documentation's 'What's New' section does feel more padded than most. Crystal window mode and MacLook interface option.OpenGL 2.1 support for Linux client VMs.DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 3 support.Multi-monitor support for Full Screen and Coherence/Crystal modes.

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Windows Aero WDDM driver support for Vista and Windows 7.

Excluding the token interface tweaks, the main features in 5 break down like this: With version 4 of Parallels Desktop having come out less than a year ago, a lot of existing users are wondering what, other than official Windows 7 support, makes version 5 worth the $49.99 upgrade.

On to the task at hand: the fifth release of well-known Mac virtualization package, Parallels Desktop. But you're not here to read about my dreams. Then Windows Aero calls to me in a fuzzy voice like that teacher from Charlie Brown. I'm having this recurring virtualization nightmare where a penguin wants to share something with me but can't. After last week's review of VMWare Fusion 3 and this week's review of Parallels Desktop 5, it's been a weird couple of weeks.

Otherwise Fusion was just as nice and feature-rich.I'm virtually exhausted.

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for me unfortunately Parallels is the only game in town as how my specific Windows apps, hardware dongles and specialty drivers work - Fusion does not support the strange setup I need. Check out both and see which one you like best (both do come with trials). In the past Parallels and Fusion were pretty much neck to neck in terms of performance and features.

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Rarely outdated Parallels versions outright 'break' but with some Mac OS releases they can, so be prepared to either outright go for their subscription payment or upgrade if you really have to should something breaks. You can therefore think also of the 'perpetual license' as a quasi subscription fee if you need to stay current and need the latest safety and functional features with Parallels.

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This does happen basically with every major MacOS update since years. One word of warning though: Although Parallels is available with a perpetual license ( I use one of those), it really is setup with regular major releases designed to coerce all users into upgrading and paying upgrade fees for each major release. This is ESPECIALLY useful as Windows screws up ever so often and it is just as easy as simply copying the VM file from a backup if that happens and Windows is back up and running again without any Windows related trouble shooting needed. The other advantage here is that My SuperDuper backups backup the Windows VM with all the other content on my Mac partitions so I do not have to run any Windows specific backup annoyances but just the regular normal Mac based backups. I do not even any longer have a bootcamp installed Windows installation but run all Windows apps through a VM in Parallels. You can configure Parallels to pretty much completely hide the entire Windows interface and only the respective apps you are launching show that they are Windows native apps as of their app UI. With Parallels I can run these apps with as little Windows interference as possible and almost pretend I am running them natively in Mac OS only. I do run a few apps for work that are unfortunately Windows only and also depend on hard ware dongles with specialty drivers - again Windows only.

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