Avoid Parallels like the plague!

It's buggy and there is zero response when complaining.

I'm going to take legal action against them if I don't get a refund. It's time software vendors were treated more like non-software companies.

If any other product went wrong as often as some software you would get an apology, an immediate refund or a replacement. OR a service engineer would come round your house to fix it!

Let's change the current attitude towards software companies... i.e. if they produce an unacceptably buggy product they have to refund just like any other company!!

"...users could pay nothing at all, and use Sun's VirtualBox"

How does that help them run DirectX9 or OpenGL2 apps?

Niki: There is nothing ironic about it. There are some programs that have not been ported from Windows to OS X and using a VM is cheaper than keeping a second computer for a program you might only need once a week or so.

I got a chance to play around last week on a Mac running Parallels 3.0, and they have a thing called "Coherence view" which superimposes Windows onto the Mac desktop. You have the start menu and launch any app completely transparently. Our CAD program, ArtiosCAD, is not available on the Mac, but the dual 3GHz Xeon-based Mac Pro ran ArtiosCAD super smooth.

That's like trying to see the irony in running Linux in VMWare under XP... hmmm.

No, I don't see the irony.

Anyone seen the irony in running Windows XP on a Mac (via Parallels)?

...users could pay nothing at all, and use Sun's VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org)!