“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 4 – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO FAITHFUL MACESTEIN READER dlowe402.
Sure, we all love Apple and the ease of OS X, but sometimes there’s things you just can’t do on a Mac – like run the latest games, business software, and viruses. But who wants to go through all the trouble of partitioning their drive and rebooting into Boot Camp? When you HAVE to use Windows, you want to get in and out QUICK, and there’s nothing quicker than Parallels 5 for Mac. Optimized for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and boasting unmatched virtual machine performance, Parallels 5 lets you launch thousands of Windows apps directly from the Mac Dock. Best of all, Parallels lets you show as much or as little of the Windows interface as you like, so your friends won’t even know you’re running Windows, thus preserving your Mac Street Cred.
Choice is good. Not having to choose is even better.
Mac OS or Windows? Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac lets you seamlessly run Windows and Mac OS X side-by-side, drag-and-drop your files between operating systems, and run Windows software on your Apple computer without rebooting.* Run thousands of Windows programs faster on your Mac
* Enhanced! Install Windows XP, Vista or 7 in 3 easy steps
* Enhanced! Optimized for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
* New! Full support for Aero, including Flip 3D in Windows Vista and 7 & OpenGL 2.1
* New! OpenGL 2.1 support for Linux guest Operating Systems
* Enhanced! Parallels Compressor automatically reclaims hard disk space
* Enhanced! Intel VT-x2 virtualization technology drives maximum performance
* Enhanced! Unmatched virtual machine performance
* Enhanced! KVM paravirtualization for Linux gives unmatched performance
To enter: simply leave us a comment below saying something POSITIVE about Windows. Winner will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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Windows runs my geocaching software.
Windows + Media Center + Xbox 360 = love streaming media content!
Solitair is way better than stupid Chess.
Windows 7 user-experience has improved a lot having that mac-like dock.
Windows is great for not being George Bush.
Windows satisfies my gaming needs.
Windows used to be my hobby: I spent many hours (and nights) tweaking and tuning for the best performance. It was a sport to keep the system smoothly running (uptime > 40 days).
Now I love my Mac Pro running Snow Leopard: it doesn’t need tweaking and runs smoothly without my intervention.
Windows feels like your first girlfriend: fond memories, but I went on with my life.
Windows is the only way I can take, much less pass, my online stats class.
Windows enhances the MAC experience by making the MAC experience feel even slicker, sexier and more attractive when you go from Windows to a MAC. It also attracts the majority of virus writers leaving us MAC users with less to worry about 🙂
1) Windows 7 was inspired by Mac os X
2) When a door closes a window opens
3) Windows makes me love my mac
Windows keeps a lot of developers employed, a very positive thing in this economy.
Windows runs autocad and Labview!
Two words: gaming platform.
Windows XP doesn’t do the BSOD as much as it used to 5 years ago. It used to be once a week. Now it’s more like once a month.
Windows resides quietly on my Mac without interfering and ready when I need it (which sometimes happens) …
Windows includes a card game at no extra cost…
Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..! Developers..!
Windows runs on a Mac with Parallels.
Windows gives me a reason to smile
Windows is fun to tweak and customize!
Windows let the sun in on a cold day!
Windows is cool for playing games…
Windows is great coz it has the best messenging application. Windows live messenger (WLM) is awesome.
Windows has minesweeper pre installed.
Windows explodes less than a Ford Pinto.
Windows 7 is better than Vista
I like the “Show desktop” button in WIndows 7. Puts Mac OS X hot corners to shame.
Windows is good for running Windows-only applications.
Its keeps the hackers from focusing on Macs
Windows has more time-wasting games preinstalled.
For ripping DVDs, windows still is the best
choice, IMO. Any DVD and Clone DVD from slysoft are fast
and seamless. A great choice.
Windows is great at running autocad…which i need to do my job…it would be great to run parallels to access the best of both worlds without a reboot
Windows is good for games.
When I would like to play games, I use Windows, That’s it
Windows 7 has features that mimic Mac. e.g the taskbar/dock
counter strike
Windows keeps me employed as a .NET developer, so I’m quite happy to have it around. Being able to program on my mac laptop would be even better.
Windows keeps tech support people from being unemployed!
Windows has Exchange, and anything looks better when compared to Lotus Notes for corporate email and scheduling…
All of the programs I need for work run in Windows…
Windows 7 is way better than Windows 95
Windows is the only place i can upgrade my nokia phone’s OS.
The best of Windows is that makes you know hell, so you can avoid it in the future.
I’ve been told that Windows supports a few more games. That’s neat.
It’s not Linux
Big fan of Windows and of Macs. There’s room for both!
Windows is a great tool. Just like a slegdehammer, it must be used carefully and for the right application. Otherwise you end up with blisters and holes in your walls.
I guess I can’t win this one, because I can’t think of anything positive about windoze. I really hate it.
Windows 7 is not bad at all, kicks Vista’s butt
Windows makes you appreciate Mac OS.