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Schmittroth
Jun 15, 2006, 07:12 PM
Parallels the program that lets you run XP with OS X just went final. Anyone tried it yet. There is a demo available. http://www.parallels.com/en/


MacRumorUser
Jun 15, 2006, 07:14 PM
Been using since first beta.

I know your not meant to be able to run games on it, but grim fandango works... guess the game just has to be old.
Nermal
Jun 15, 2006, 07:33 PM
Does it still look like it was written for Linux, or have they tidied it up?
Steve1496
Jun 15, 2006, 07:36 PM
Does it still look like it was written for Linux, or have they tidied it up?


The UI is much better. They've been working on integrating the aqua GUI. Looks nice now.

Steve
Nermal
Jun 15, 2006, 07:43 PM
The UI is much better. They've been working on integrating the aqua GUI. Looks nice now.

Good to know, I'll take it for a spin once I get broadband back (4 days away).
benyaimin
Jun 15, 2006, 07:58 PM
damn wish i had a MacTel.
slackersonly
Jun 15, 2006, 08:00 PM
anyone else find it funny that this is in the gaming section.:p
Schmittroth
Jun 15, 2006, 08:56 PM
anyone else find it funny that this is in the gaming section.:p
I kinda figured that there are a lot of gamers running Boot Camp right now, I was curious if the final of Parallels matched performance at all. I know the beta still had video card driver problems.
MacRumorUser
Jun 16, 2006, 04:21 AM
I kinda figured that there are a lot of gamers running Boot Camp right now, I was curious if the final of Parallels matched performance at all. I know the beta still had video card driver problems.

??? You are seriously confused. Parallels has NO hardware video acceleration. They use software acceleration as it would be impossible to run the gpu in hardware mode, the gpu doesnt support vitualization.

Drivers are not a problem simply because it doesnt drive the gpu at all.

You can run old games with software acceleration, but you CAN NOT run anything from the last few years.

It's not meant for games period.
Nermal
Jun 23, 2006, 01:20 AM
Good to know, I'll take it for a spin once I get broadband back (4 days away).

OK, I gave it a go, and it's still not very Mac-like, things like "press Ctrl-Alt" (instead of Control-Option) and "press Alt-Enter" (instead of Option-Return; Option-Enter doesn't even work!)
MacRumorUser
Jun 23, 2006, 05:26 AM
OK, I gave it a go, and it's still not very Mac-like, things like "press Ctrl-Alt" (instead of Control-Option) and "press Alt-Enter" (instead of Option-Return; Option-Enter doesn't even work!)

It means perfect mac keyboard sense on this side of the water (Uk/Ireland) as we dont have option, we have ALT

We dont have return, we have enter.....


:D :D :D :D
Nermal
Jun 23, 2006, 05:41 AM
Hmm, I wonder why they did that :confused:
MacRumorUser
Jun 23, 2006, 07:04 AM
Hmm, I wonder why they did that :confused:

Where are the development team based ? If in europe then basically they've just used the keyboards in front of them ?

Edit: oops no!

13800 Coppermine Road
Suite 340
Herndon, VA 20171
USA

?? Don't know why they swallowed a fly, my oh my ??

Oh well for once we europeans have our keyboards marked properly rather than hold down option on boot? WHERES MY OPTION :p Feel like Homer wanting a fresh 'tab'....
Nermal
Jun 23, 2006, 03:15 PM
Where are the development team based ? If in europe then basically they've just used the keyboards in front of them ?

No, I mean Apple. I wonder why they give you guys different key names.