Parallels v7 - Anyone running it yet?

[Young Spade]

Anyone seen what it costs to buy Windows through Parallels 7 Windows on Demand feature? It is listed in their web page but no mention of what can be bought or cost. If anyone has tried it, what was the installation experience?

I don't know the cost, nor have I tried it, but I'm assuming you'd just download the ISO from their server onto a location on your hard drive.

If you ever use Parallels with it not using the bootcamp partition, that's basically what you do: just point to an ISO (either Windows, Ubuntu, etc.) and it loads it up and allows you to confiture then install it.

I'm sure it also gives you the option to burn it to a disk as well, to use as a bootcamp DVD for installing the OS.

And again, I haven't tried this, but I'm assuming this would be the case.

 

[csjcsj]

The main problem I have with P6 and Lion is that I can't just drag files from the finder on to the Windows desktop anymore (instead of having to use those annoying share folders or put the file on the Mac desktop). Can you do this with P7? Even if you can, I don't think it's worth $50.

 

[talmy]

instead of having to use those annoying share folders

Interesting because those share folders are a major plus for me. I save all my data files on the OS X side rather than in the Windows virtual drive. That way I get the advantage of TimeMachine backups and don't have to worry about backing up the Windows side other than an occasional whole system clone. Only problem are Windows apps that refuse to work with network drives.

 

[yitwail]

FYI, anyone who bought parallels 6 from an authorized dealer on or after Aug. 1 gets a free update. If you bought it from parallels, they email you the instructions. I bought it from Amazon, but got the upgrade by visiting http://www.parallels.com/keyfor7/request/