The battle PC vs. Mac, with the hilarious ads intended to show virtues, advantages and disadvantages of both systems needs not to be part of our daily work. It is not always easy to decide which system is the best for us, and this usually happens in big companies, where some IT people prefer Mac and some others prefer PC...and the poor employee has to adapt to the management's likes and dislikes, with the consequent compatibility issues that may arise, especially if we have to move from PC to Mac all of a sudden and we need to carry our windows system with us.

But to make our lives easier, Parallels brings to us Parallels Desktop 4.0, a sophisticated system able to mount several virtual machines on a single Mac, be it Windows, Linux or any other operative system with its particular applications. And it achieves this by introducing a middle layer between the Mac and the guest OS.

Make The Most of Every OS
This award-winning hardware emulation virtualization software really simplifies the joint use of apparent antipathetic OS.

Something great...with Parallels Desktop on your Mac you do not need to worry about which OS you are using, since the SmartSelect function lets you open Windows files with Mac applications and Mac files with Windows applications...amazing ductility, isn't it?

 

Windows  

Windows programs can be opened as if they were native Mac applications through Coherence. And it also brings the top model of graphical user interface world: the drag and drop function.

Get Virtual
Parallels Desktop is an excellent virtualization software for Mac OS X, which allows you to run a Windows environment with Mac in a window to window view, in the same desktop without rebooting in order to switch between them.

The newly arrived, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, has significantly improved its performance running Windows, compared to its previous version, reaching between 40% and 50% improvement.

 

 

 

 

Version 4, the first new version of the software in about a year, includes new manageability features that enable users to more easily manage external storage devices, and create backups for data protection.

Parallels Desktop for Mac Version 4 includes an adaptable Hypervisor to automatically optimize performance based on running applications on the Mac at any time. Earlier versions of Parallels had a switch to optimize performance in the Mac environment or in the guest operating system. With the new version, Parallels automates the process right away, placing resources in the environment in which the most demanding applications are being run, both in the native Mac environment as in the virtual machine.

 

 

 

Improvement Goes on
And as if this was not good enough, Parallels Desktop for Mac V4.0 comes to the field with some new great features to go on bringing OS X and Windows even closer.

 

Better Performance
Parallels Desktop for Mac V4.0  gives you the maximum speed of the industry thanks to the innovative hypervisor engine (virtual machine monitor) that supports high-performance SMP of 4 addresses per virtual machine (VM), 8 GB of RAM by VM and a 64-bit computing.

Be Safe
Extended safety and protection features will protect applications and the Windows environment while keeping your Mac safe.
Be my Guest...
Parallels Desktop for Mac V4.0  supports Mac OS X Server as a VM guest: be among the first to switch to virtual Mac OS X Server.
Huge support
The utility brings an improved support for video and 3D graphics support for DirectX 9.0.

Your Opinion Matters
This new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac comes with more than 50 new features and improvements that offer a complete and enjoyable experience with Windows on Mac. And what is really great... most of them are based directly on the users' opinions! It's good to know you are heard...isn't it.