If you’re switching from a PC you can even use the supplied Windows tool to dump the OS and applications to a virtual disk file with a few clicks, and painlessly migrate it into Parallels: we tried a fairly clean Windows 7 installation occupying 30GB on disk, and found it took about an hour. We were pleased to see that Parallels was able to load Windows from our existing Boot Camp partition, although you can also install to a virtual disk file. Running Windows 7 natively in Boot Camp, this hardware achieved an overall score of 0.93 in our benchmarks. on the cards or not is ensuring communities have access to devices to listen on. In the VM Configuration window, click Hardware and select Sound. Were going to try and remove some of these fears, bust the myths and. To put this to the test, we tried it out using mid-range hardware: a 20in iMac with 2GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo T7300 processor. Click the Parallels icon in the top Mac menu bar and choose Configure. Performance is always an issue with virtualisation, thanks to the overheads of running two operating systems at once, but Parallels claims to give the smoothest Windows-on-OS X experience available.

The real selling point for version 6, though, is speed. OS X parental controls are automatically applied to Windows applications, and keyboard shortcuts can be synchronised between operating systems to reduce confusion as you switch between platforms.

There are a few other additions too, including Spotlight support for Windows files and 5.1 surround sound for anyone watching movies or playing games on a virtual PC (although be warned that there’s only support for DirectX 9).

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