“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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Using Parallels 4 right now and love it!
All windows are great for my nieces. I have 5 nieces and ever since I’ve gotten my own computer back in 2003, it has been easy for them to operate windows over mac. I preferably love mac, but they love windows. Parallels would save a lot of time downloading and having to reinstall windows to partition the disk so my nieces can install new games on the computer. Please pick me and help me out! 🙂
I use Micro$oft Project at work and think it’s the bees knees. Would love to use it at home!
Their commercials are entertaining.
Windows is awesome! Like your ugly friend you take to the bar when you wanna look extra hott, the perfect wingman for practically any other os 😉
I like to right click and use the send to feature.
Microsoft has really learned from Apple when designing Windows 7, it now actually looks pretty.
I used windows to load parameters to my pro audio eq and digital signs!
Ahhh Windows, how I love thee.
Windows provides me a steady source of income. 😉
My corp office is a Windows environment and all my work is done in Windows so I guess it helps pay the bills.
Lots of hang ups crashes gives me ample downtime thru the day, and I get to chat it up with my IT collegues. Leaving work and going home to my Mac home Life is simply the best.
Windows 7 is why everyone runs Windows XP
I occasionally have to run Windows XP to participate in WebEx conferences (with an unnamed corporation that has broken WebEx for Mac in their zeal to use scripts that make WebEx “easier” for hapless Windows users. Argh!
Windows is great for those who like to delve into the inner workings of the registry and arcane error msgs. I am excited to see if things are really improved in windows 7. (funny, I remember the big hooplah over mac os “System 7” coming out almost 20 years ago! 🙂 )
I think Windows 7 has really cleaned up the experience and is a lot more straightforward with settings and such than previous versions ever were.
Windows 7 is shiny and pretty.
I use windows @work and so far it has been a pretty good experience for me. I briefly played with Windows 7 and so far it looks good.
Windows 7 is solid!
Windows 7 has improved the experience quite a lot. There is also some apps that aren’t on OS X and therefore we still need Windows.
Windows is great and fully packaged. It even includes a trash bin inside it !
If your “outside,” Windows are nice so you can see how messy it is “inside.”
If Windows (Microsoft) had not given Apple a lifeline of investment in 1997, where would we be…
Thanks BIll…
the rest is history
Windows instead of OS X at work means BSOD jokes and no kernel panics! 😉
The version number in Windows 7 is positive.
I have to use Windows for work, otherwise avoid it.
If it were not for Windows, us Mac users would not know how good we have it! ………But seriously folk, I like Windows because it lets me explore software that may not be available for us Mac users.
Windows the best dvd collection database program out there!
I like Blue
Windows doubles my web development time so I can bill more hours on my web work!
Ian
Windows 7 has a decent half-way-to-resolution-independent interface implementation. Seriously, it does, and I really want that option on OSX to get finished, already–how long has it been sitting half-done in the dev tools now?
Windows helps makes the Mac OS look even better!
The great thing about Windows is that it can finally be used on a Mac, thanks to Parallels Desktop 5!
Most games run on Windows.
Windows is awesome for gaming, when it aint crashing 😛
Windows is great at work for running the engineering apps that we used to run on unix. Now if only they got ported to macos X!
I like Windows because it makes Mac OS X that much more attractive. “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”
Windows keeps me in a job!
Bu tin honesty I must add that I teach and train IT skills in the the Mental Health section of the UK’s National Health Service 🙂
i like windows 7 because it finally has most of the features of Mac OS X.
Somebody called Solitaire, but I say Windows is good for solidarity. Imagine spending all your nice family time together trying to figure out how your PC doesn’t work. Yay! And Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is on Windows. Thank God I have a PS3. 😀
While now a total Mac fan I will alway be impressed by the way Windows has managed to maintain it’s long history of backwards compatibility with software and hardware given the unfathomable sea of possible combinations out there.
The fastest windows machine is a mac! I would like to upgrade to 5 so I can continue to play exciting windoze games like solitaire. 🙂
Many people find it useful
Windows is better on a Mac. Thats kind of a nice thing to say right 😀
Windowa is way better than using a pencil and paper!
Windows allows you to have access to games.
Windows 7 is really a decent operating system. It is faster, more efficient and prettier than before
My brother still uses windows and I like him.
Hearts on the network. Ahhhh… 🙂
Windows is quite popular in some businesses.
The new windows does have some great features