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Parallels for the Mac -- best way to run windows

If, God help you, you need to run Windows on your Mac. Make sure you do so using Parallels and not the Apple Boot Camp. Apple's Boot Camp requires you to shut down your machine and restart it in Windows mode. It's a major pain. If you run Parallels, you can run Windows in a separate window within OS X. It's way more convenient, and well worth the added cost.
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Rating: 83% positive, 6 total Votes
Categories: Mac OS X Computers windows
Added: on Mar 08, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Added By: an anonymous user

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I've never run Windows using Boot Camp, but I do use Parallels and the one thing I'd say that is not good about is that it really sucks up the memory. Even when I have it configured to only use 256MB, it ends up taking 2GB of virtual memory.
– Added by freak on Mar 09, 2007 at 8:15 am
paralles is great! BUT! you can't play new games as even the latest version of parallels doesnt support anything over directx 8.1 :(
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 27, 2007 at 7:15 am
the vmware fusion beta is worth a try, they even have experimental support for 3d acceleration
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 30, 2007 at 10:33 am
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