Parallels Desktop ® App Store Edition has the same basic features as Parallels Desktop ® Standard Edition: it enables you to run Windows ®, Linux and their applications on your Mac without rebooting. However, as App Store applications run in sandbox, there are some differences between App Store and Standard editions. The product will be available at an SRP of $79.99, the same price that you'll find in our Online Store. 15, however, users who purchase Parallels Desktop for Mac through any of our retail partners will be eligible for a $20 rebate when they purchase Windows XP within 14 days.
MusicDude0422 wrote:
Yes, Parallels is virtual machine OS X program that allows you run Windows or other operating systems in a window in OS X.
You install it first then start a new machine and install Windows from a Full retail disk.
Second, does Parallels still partition a portion of my drive, or something else?
No, that's Apple's Bootcamp which gives you more hardware performance as it's a dual boot, boot directly into Windows for 3D games and other hardware pressing software.
If your going to do this, you need to do this first before Parallels, as Parallels can take a copy of Windows Bootcamp and use it as a virtual machine file in OS X. Saves double installing.
finally, how much space do you guys recommend partitioning if that is what I have to do?
All depends how much your going to be using Windows and OS X. 50/50 could be good, 60/40 could be good or even 70/30 all depends upon your needs.
The virtual machine method gives less performance, but it has a snapshop option to take pictures of the host OS, so it only takes seconds to restore back if it gets hosed or malware. In fact I update Windows from a pristine copy so it's always clean.
In Bootcamp there is more hardware performance, but it's like Windows on a PC, subject to being hosed in short order and F8 and all that business.
P.S. Do you guys know anything about putting windows on an external hard drive?
You can clone Windows partition to a external drive using the free Winclone, but you can't run it as Windows takes the hardware in the validation process.
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Jul 18, 2011 3:59 PM
I realize that most of the helper-angels on this support medium are flying at 10,000 feet and are all-knowing, and I have infinite respect for you because many of you have helped me quite a few times before, but I'm getting very frustrated and really don't where to turn. Please don't tell me to try Parallels support because many of them don't know their own products nor the Mac OS.
I have a late 2014 iMac, which I recently updated to Big Sur. Prior to updating to Big Sur, I was running Mojave. I have QuickBooks Mac Desktop 2015 version in which exists all the financials of my business. It's tax season, so I need to generate a profit-and-loss sheet ASAP. And yes, I wasn't with it enough to catch up on my admin before the upgrade to Big Sur, so here we are.
I need the step-by-step of creating a virtual machine that uses Mojave from clicking the Parallels 16 icon in my Dock to being able to click on the Quickbooks icon in my Dock and having it open. Telling me to just create a virtual machine is not enough help for me.
The helper that gets me to where I need to be; working in Quickbooks on my profit-and-loss before April 15 gets a jar of my honey from my hives here on Nantucket Island.
CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME?
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