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This was my first time using virtualization technology, and Parallels couldn't have made it any easier. A co-worker of mine recommended I use virtualization to create a virtual machine for my 10-year-old son to use when he's surfing the net (he always seems to be downloading viruses, spyware, etc, and it REALLY pisses me off). Regardless, I was a little nervous since my computer skills don't really go much past e-mailing and checking basketball scores, but I easily created a virtual machine, and now I won't have to format my computer every other week because of my son's actions. I don't know about about the "technical specs," but for this the novice user, this seems to be the perfect program.

By  Anonymous, at Friday, March 24, 2006 3:33:00 PM 

Haha, so I guess I'm NOT the only one trying to clean my hard drive of viruses every other day because of my son's "internet antics."

I heard virtualization may be a way to avoid this, but honestly, the explaination I heard was totally over my head. I'm afraid I'm going to purchase this program and have NO IDEA how to run it...is it really that simple?

By  Anonymous, at Friday, March 24, 2006 3:37:00 PM 

yeah, it REALLY is that simple. you download the software off the website (http://www.parallels.com), run the install, and then it basically takes you through step by step. The language is simple, the interface is familiar and extremely user-friendly. If I could do it, you won't have any problems! Enjoy!

By  Anonymous, at Friday, March 24, 2006 4:34:00 PM 

You guys seem to be one person - marketing the product. Your writing styles and tone are identical! It still does not compare to VMWare workstation or for the at matter Virtual Workstation by Microsoft.

By  Anonymous, at Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:22:00 PM 

Does seem a lot of comments going around with nothing but praise for this product.
As as the above poster kind of says, I thonk you have to see the other side.
I have tried this software and its much more inferior to VMware or even what microsoft have put out.
Nice eye candy, but very slow and interface to weak to do a lot.
As the other person said, many better options out there than this one.
But as they have a trial version, as least you can try before you buy or move on to try the better products out there IMHO.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, March 27, 2006 3:12:00 AM 

First three obviously from Parallels, and I love the effect of first post - "he always seems to be downloading viruses, spyware, etc, and it REALLY pisses me of" - nice touch. I suggest going back to the drawing board Parallels.

By  Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:38:00 AM 

Well, kudos at least for not deleting all comments after the first three..

By  clith, at Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:29:00 PM 

"Nice eye candy, but very slow and interface to weak to do a lot."

I'm running the parallels trial right now and am finding it to be faster than vmware workstation with Ubuntu and windows as the guest.

( And no I don't work for parallels ).

By  Jon, at Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:28:00 PM 

And the $1 million question; How does it handle playing video?

As far as I've seen, no VM product yet that I've tried has been able to play video. Be it Windows Media player in a WinXP guest OS from Linux host or mplayer in on a linux guest from a windows host..

After video gets going, the next would be 3D for games. As was recently mentioned on another blog, Parallel apparently plans on supporting OSX as a host and if video and games would work well, then the last barrier for migrating to Mac would vanish for a lot of people (me included). The number one barrier for migrating home users away from Windows is that no other OS has the same amount of entertainment software available. Being able to use a better OS while still having all the entertainment available would provide a benefit large enough to justify a switch.

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:45:00 PM 

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