Parallels Review
Filed in Gadgets on Dec.10, 2009
screencast featured on this channel! Bwana has been hanging out with us for years, and is even a moderator in my chat room – when he has time! He’s gained quite a following of his own, and rightfully so. He does excellent work, and I’m always more than happy to have him do reviews for us. Today, he sent a screencast to me to give you all an overview of Parallels 5.0 on the Mac. twitter.com – chris.pirillo.com – http … Parallels os-x mac virtual-machine vm pirillo blog gadgets screencast review …
December 10th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Nice video!
December 10th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Yes, windows is still installed on your computer, so you still need to watch out..
December 10th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Right… (sarcasm)
Seriously, I know Macs can’t get viruses. It’s Windows on a Mac that makes me wonder whether a Mac is safe.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:46 am
@esetorsido I love how you say that “windows is prone to viruses” and then go on to ask “Can you even get viruses with Parallel”, one, Viruses are almost extinct with windows, you’re never going to get a “virus” without being a total jack ass, and two, of course a Virtual Machine can get viruses, it’s just emulation, not a giant virus protector. It shows how much you really know of what you’re talking about.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I think the idea they have is “Macfans want Windows programs on a Mac.” Most programs in the computer community are Windows exclusive, but Windows is prone to viruses. Therefore, Parallels was created to make this connection visually possible.
Can you still get viruses with Windows even with Parallel?
December 10th, 2009 at 8:07 am
I use windows for games other than that it’s total garbage
December 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Lol, all mac fanboys are shouting ”Windows is fucking bad” while they eventually all have Windows installed on their Macs.
December 10th, 2009 at 9:19 am
LOL 15:10 – Fattie
December 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am
@ iobuffa, I totally agree with you
December 10th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Great screen cast, it answered all my questions. thank you
December 10th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Wow, you guys got waayy too much time on your hands. It was a simple statement. I mistakingly called the Mac home disk the “C drive”. Windows users should know Macs don’t have a C drive. So why would Bwana say that? Wow. Calm down.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Screenflow
December 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Thanks. I think i might install windows 7 now i know it wont ruin my mac.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
yes you can, but they run much slower
December 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Can you play windows only games on it?
December 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
upgrade to 4GB (or if you have a 2008 macbook pro unibody then 3GB cause 4GB will cause hanging problems due to faulty nvidia chipsets).. but 2GB ain’t enough if you run VMs to run OS X efficiently
December 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
screenflow
December 10th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Hi,
what Screencast Software do you use on that cast?
Greets
December 10th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@jihadjared hey thanks i didnt know that
December 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
It is inane to say that windows users could not adapt to the primary drive being called something other than C:…
again, I repeat,
Mac users are pretentious…
December 10th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
@4:20 Windows uses C: as a designation of the “main drive” too…
Apple users are so pretentious.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
yep
December 10th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
i can use the same windows 7 on boot camp and parallels?
December 10th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
can we play games on it ?
December 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
@chunkybrit21
I don’t think that could happen..Yes it is running windows but the Mac’s HD’s are still formatted the same way as before you had parallels..I don’t think it can change the formatting of the HD..I might be wrong though.. Good question=)