Parallels Turns (Version) 3 and Gains 3D
Posted in Apple by Dan at 5:55 pm
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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.
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.
To upgrade to version 3.0 it will set you back $40 before June 7 and $50 after that.
Please tell me version 3 will come out for linux! Is that quake 4 I see in that screenshot?
Now, will v3 also be for Linux?
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!
I think vmware can just abandon the platform now, they have way too much catchup to do :P
Nice to see that they’ll upgrade anyone who bought Parallels after May 1st for free (like me).
yay!
is the 3D support Linux Guest OS? I don’t care about windows gaming, i have my Wii.
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).
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.