According to this from their Website section 1 and 2, it doesn't unless you buy qualifying hardware / software.
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According to this from their Website section 1 and 2, it doesn't unless you buy qualifying hardware / software.
Just use PayPal at checkout. You can dispute the transaction right after you find out it is not qualify to upgrade or call newegg.com to get a refund. You give it a try. If it is qualify, you are lucky to get it cheaper than anyone.
You don't need them all running at once. But often switching between them is important as a developer. In my case, we develop hardware. We have virtual machines for not just Windows, but Windows 7, Windows 7x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vistax64, Windows XP, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3, Unix and even OSX. We can then copy around the images (we keep clean uncorrupted versions on local USB drives that never get touched). This way we are always testing our hardware / drivers against clean versions of the operating system.
This is just one use.
Testing software, webpages etc. across multiple OSs and web browsers, testing installers on 'virgin' systems.
Running web, database servers etc. for development: although macs come with Apache/PHP it is sometimes convenient to run a webserver in a VM for testing (e.g. you want a newer/older version of Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL than comes with a Mac - just set up a Linux VM).
Maybe 5 at once is pushing it, but VMs are absolutely invaluable for developers.
Thanks, I will give the trial a chance. On another note, how have I been a member since 2006 and am still considered a newbie?
Good thought, I didn't think of it that way. But I did call NewEgg and they said that they don't know if it will qualify and asked me to call Parallels -- of which Parallels doesn't answer their phone unless they already have your money.
BTW, The promo code is done, over. Just tried it and it won't add to my account. Oh well, no loss.
You upgrade your phone, tablet and pc EVERY YEAR? Send some of that old stuff my way will ya, I'll take your leftovers.
What I see after I start Parallels 8. (imported W7 machine using Parallels Transporter under Parallels 7, then upgrade to Parallels 8)
What my original desktop looked like under W7 (yes, the background picture is different)
Note:
- Screwed up google talk (other apps have this problem - eg terminal!)
- Blurry Chrome
- Different looking Thunderbird
- Screwed up fences:
- Rounded corners much less in P8
- Overlapping icons with fences
None of these were problems before the upgrade: the desktop looked exactly the same as the original, under P7.
GaJ
Possibly better graphics performance.
Parallels' strong point has always been better integration between Windows and OSX desktops. They've tried to make it feel as if you've added the ability to run Windows apps to OS X, rather than running a separate windows PC in a bottle.
- e.g. by default, your windows 'Home/Desktop/Documents' are your OSX home/Destop/Documents folders. You have the ability to open OS X files in Windows apps from Finder, and MS files in OS X apps via Windows Explorer. The 'mixed desktop' mode (i.e. when you hide the windows desktop and Windows apps share the desktop OS X windows) is a bit slicker than in VirtualBox. When Windows is running, the windows drive shows up as an icon on the Mac desktop and can be browsed with finder. You get a new 'Windows applications' dock icon that can launch windows apps. The VM starts up automatically if you launch (or open a file associated with) a Windows app.
Now you may be thinking "ugh - the whole point of a VM is to sandbox those nasty Windows viruses and stop Windows apps from stinking up my dock" in which case all those features can be turned off leaving you with something more like Virtualbox - but then you've probably bypassed the Unique Selling Point of parallels.
If VirtualBox is doing the job, there's no need to change. I'd mainly consider Parallels if you're regularly using Windows desktop apps in conjunction with OS X apps (e.g. even after switching to Mac I've been unable to ween myself off Xara for vector graphics work). If you just need to occasionally test something on a PC I'd stick with virtualbox.
I'm seeing something similar. when the windowed VM is on the retina screen it doesn't look TOO bad... windows desktop at least.. but some of my software is just messed up. When I drag the window to my 30 inch screen then everything is just HUGE! This is horrible! Parallels 7 looked so much better.
Ok. I got this fixed I think. found this technote: http://kb.parallels.com/114655
I needed to turn BOTH new retina options OFF for things to look ok on both my retina and non retina monitors.
Ads in the movie theater are totally obnoxious, and what really hurts is that they are piling them on top of a $15 ticket. The sad thing is that the revenue from the ads amounts to less than $0.20 per audience member, so why don't they just charge $15.21 and give everyone a far better experience???
As far as parallels ads go, I added a number of .parallels.com sites to my /etc/hosts file and haven't heard a peep from their ads in years.
You can install OS X Mountain Lion as guest OS
You are allowed two by Apple. Nice to know...
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...ernalId=2033778&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1
Edit: I am using Parallels 8 but the information is useful. I do see that I can create a guest OS thru Parallels 8 for OS X Mountain Lion using the recovery partition. Pretty sweet for testing!
You are allowed two by Apple. Nice to know...
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...ernalId=2033778&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1
Edit: I am using Parallels 8 but the information is useful. I do see that I can create a guest OS thru Parallels 8 for OS X Mountain Lion using the recovery partition. Pretty sweet for testing!
Stay with Parallels 7 Dont upgrade yet
downloaded today very very buggy.
Running windows in full screen on 2 displays also buggy, can not move applications from one screen to the other. Spent 1.5hrs on phone with support and they could not find a solution.
screen resolutions are not optimised, explorer looked shocking, look of the tabs not developed well. Can not use second screen efficiently either. Can not have one screen optimised for retina and a sencond at what you predefined. Have to run Retina display at lower resolution for it to work or have two retina display monitors.
Bit of lag as well. At this stage 7 is still a better product
Advice wait for issues to resolve or other sacrificial lambs to go through process so they can build a proper product. This should not have been released so soon.
DO NOT BUY YET!
downloaded today very very buggy.
Running windows in full screen on 2 displays also buggy, can not move applications from one screen to the other. Spent 1.5hrs on phone with support and they could not find a solution.
screen resolutions are not optimised, explorer looked shocking, look of the tabs not developed well. Can not use second screen efficiently either. Can not have one screen optimised for retina and a sencond at what you predefined. Have to run Retina display at lower resolution for it to work or have two retina display monitors.
Bit of lag as well. At this stage 7 is still a better product
Advice wait for issues to resolve or other sacrificial lambs to go through process so they can build a proper product. This should not have been released so soon.
DO NOT BUY YET!
Called to both side, newegg.com and Parallels support. They said it is good to go. No problem.
My phone/tablet id say every 18 months, mainly because i keep having my existing phone/tablet forced into obsolescence by updates to my apps (why does apple let you upgrade an app to a version that WONT RUN on your model is beyond me, it wont let you PURCHASE on a model that doesn't support it, but if you already own it, and the devs decide to drop support, your buggered)
My PC i upgrade continuously, id say every year it gets some new parts, so its an ever evolving beast, new video card here, new CPU there, more ram, SSDs, new monitor,
My iMac, ill probably sell and replace every 3 years (or potentially keep and use as a 2nd thunderbolt display if Thunderbolt has been replaced by "the next thing TM" already
After I shutdown my Win7 VM yesterday, I upgraded, went as expected, about 15-20 minutes, new Parallels Tools installed in Win7 (did the same with my PD7 upgrade).
Everything is running great, haven't really looked into the new features, just confirmed all my VMs would start (including some Linux configs), and fired up a few apps and services.
The one Parallels bug I had was using gfxCardStatus and forcing Integrated when running on battery Win7 would sometimes be non-responsive (easy to fix, just switch to dynamic or discreet), I'll see if that's resolved today.
Everything is running great, haven't really looked into the new features, just confirmed all my VMs would start (including some Linux configs), and fired up a few apps and services.
The one Parallels bug I had was using gfxCardStatus and forcing Integrated when running on battery Win7 would sometimes be non-responsive (easy to fix, just switch to dynamic or discreet), I'll see if that's resolved today.
Got my upgrade invite email this morning and upgraded to Parallels 8. Runs a little smoother. But, nothing noticeably different than 7. And, 8gb RAM is still the max allocatable to a vm. :/
FYI it seems like NewEgg has added the promo code back in. Yesterday afternoon, I was getting "Code is Invalid" but now it seems fine again.