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Parallels Turns (Version) 3 and Gains 3D

May 31, 2007 by in Apple with 9 Comments

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Parallels has announced that they are a week or two away from releasing version 3.0 of their VM product, and this update is going to be a serious one, with more then 50 brand new features.

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The new version will allow your preferred application handlers to work cross-platform. That means you can open URLs in IE7, mailto: links in Mail.app, or .xls files in Excel 2007 to name a few. Parallels also auto backups up with system snapshots, browse through Windows folders, without launching Windows, but the most notable feature is now limited support for 3D graphics.

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To upgrade to version 3.0 it will set you back $40 before June 7 and $50 after that.

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  • Patrick Haverkamp

    Please tell me version 3 will come out for linux! Is that quake 4 I see in that screenshot?

  • http://mavrev.com Matt

    Now, will v3 also be for Linux?

  • http://wilcosworld.co.uk Adam

    Finally, the ablity to run games like Max Payne 2, and Thief Deadly Shadows on a Mac. Halo 2 maybe? Excellent stuff, sign me up!

  • http://ninjakitten.us Fjölnir Ásgeirsson

    I think vmware can just abandon the platform now, they have way too much catchup to do :P

  • Ian

    Nice to see that they’ll upgrade anyone who bought Parallels after May 1st for free (like me).

  • chad

    yay!

  • http://www.zeusbox.org Ncus

    is the 3D support Linux Guest OS? I don’t care about windows gaming, i have my Wii.

  • Olivier

    VMware Fusion has on top of this 32bit+64 bit and most importantly they support as many cores as your computer has (i.e. with Paralles, even on a core 2 duo, windows will think it’s a single core CPU).

  • biru

    There are plenty of other reasons not to dismiss VMware’s product so quickly, many enterprise customers already have a large investment in VMware and the ability to take an existing VM and run it in Fusion is attractive. Also (speaking from experience), Parallels has a lot to learn regarding proper support in an enterprise environment.

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