04/06/2006, 9:25am, EDT
Thursday, April 6th
Parallels offers OS X virtualization
"Parallels Workstation for MacOS X gives Mac users a viable virtualization solution that will let them embrace widely-used operating systems like Windows and Linux without having to give up the power, usability and familiarity of their Macintosh," said Benjamin Rudolph, Parallels Marketing Manager. "This release underscores our commitment to building solutions that anyone, regardless of budget, technology savvy, or operating system can use to improve productivity and platform flexibility."
The solution leverages the Intel Core Duo, an x86-compatible architecture that allows the Parallels virtualization engine to "virtualize the hardware," enabling Mac users to build virtual machines running nearly any x86-compatible OS, including Windows 3.1-XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2, eComStation, and MS-DOS.
Parallels' full support of Intel Virtualization Technology, which is included in most new Core Duo chipset, ensures that virtual machine performance is close to near-native and that each virtual machine is stable and completely isolated from other virtual machines and the host physical machine.
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Virtualisation provides enough protection by running Win32 stuff in its own sandbox. If anything gets infected/deleted/corrupted, it happens inside its virtual disk image; Mac OS stays safe.
I am very impressed. On an Intel Mac now you can run any Windos applications that you want. You can run CAD, you can play your games and for everything else you can use your Mac. :-)
it's just like having a real PC. The installation took less time than real PC infact.
Best of both world indeed. You can really get rid of your PC at work. MacBook Pro can be used instead of just PC and Mac.