Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta – Feature Overload
Watch out competition…the Parallels team is bringing it’s “A” game. Build 3036 Beta is available and there’s no shortage of new features being baked in. A very ambitious undertaking. The VM Catalog, Improved Look/Feel, Resizable Windows, Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution, Drag/Drop and Read/Write from BootCamp are all welcomed additions. Additionally, minor annoyances like copy/paste shortcut key inconsistencies are addressed.
From the announcement in the Parallels Forums:
- New Look and Feel and Improved Usability
- Virtual Machines Catalogue
- One-click Virtual Machine Aliases
- Resizable Main Window
- Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution
- Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac
- Read/Write BootCamp partition
- Boot from BootCamp partition
- Parallels Transporter Beta bundled
- Coherence
- Improved graphic performance
- Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved
- Up to 5 Virtual NICs
- Enhanced Shared Networking Mode
- Switch between networking modes on-the-fly
- Transparent mapping of Command-AZXCV key combinations
- Power On/Power Off/Suspend/Resume/Pause animation
- Shared folders configuration on-the-fly
Already, there are plenty of folks chiming in with their comments. Dave at Meandering Blog (a recent Switcher) is especially excited about the new Coherence feature where Windows applications seem to run as OSX applications in window-less fashion.
Dave @ Meandering Blog – http://meandering-blog.com/archive/2006/12/04/Another-reason-I_2700_m-happy-I-went-to-a-Mac.aspx
Scot Lowe on his blog – http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/12/03/macintosh-virtualization-heating-up/
Michael Rose at TUAW – http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/56254795/
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