LEMERLOT I've tried to upgrade from Parallels v3 to v4... - and the nightmare started.
Now I have to downgrade to v3 again since v4 never worked – only showing me a blue screen with my formerly rock solid XP Bootcamp partition.
If you look in Parallels' forums you'll understand why I only can give you one advice: Do yourself a big favor and wait with the upgrade until the next version which (hopefully) works... (Version 4.0.3522)
After having installed Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 5580 I didn't expect very much. But seems the Parallels team worked hard because this version rocks. I am even able now to use my Treo 650 Smartphone remotely on my Mac via USB and PDA Reach (for Windows) for the first time - AND in Parallels' Coherence mode - best of both worlds - so convenient and cool!
Since Parallels so far never was able to handle this USB task I wanted to switch to VM Ware Fusion. But with Parallels' Build 5580 this isn't necessary any more. Parallels Build 5580 is now very snappy and fast again so I have no reason for switching any more. In a perfect world I would wish that it would support both processors of my MacBook Pro Core2Duo - but hey, who's perfect?
I can highly recommend Parallels Desktop now again - it's worth every Dollar!
KELTIA I bought Parallels even before the release during the beta phase, I was pretty much excited about it. It runs fine but in the meantime, VMWare released Fusion. I've bought it and use it instead of Parallels because it has SMP & 64 bit support (which is invaluable for me for FreeBSD/amd64 work). Although a minor point, SCSI emulation in Fusion instead of just plain IDE is very nice. Parallels has some serious catch up to do IMHO. (Version 3.0.5584)
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