Computer Business Review mentions that Intel is officially launching the quad-core Core 2s: Intel Corp has officially launched its first desktop quad-core processor, codenamed Kentsfield, with new systems boasting the CPU set to be announced today. But for the average enterprise user, two plus two will not add up to … Read more
Some are reporting on the Parallels forums and elsewhere, that they are no longer having to do the “sleep trick” to get the Intel virtualization technology (VTI-x) to kick in for Parallels. You have to install the update and then power the machine all the way off – rebooting wont’ … Read more
From the CrossOver Mac 6.0 team: From Jeremy White’s posting in the CrossOver Mac forums: I’m happy to say that we’ve now made a public prerelease version of CrossOver Mac 6.0 available for your testing pleasure. A summary list of changes is available below. At this point, we feel we’re … Read more
If you bought the retail copy of Parallels Desktop, and have a Mac Pro or a Core 2 Duo-based Mac (iMac, new MacBook Pros), it is highly recommended that you upgrade to Build #1970 of Parallels Desktop. This thread by Andrew at the Parallels support forum explains why: There are … Read more
A new build of Parallels Desktop available, Build #1970, is available with the new features that came about in Build 1966 are now apart of the official Parallels Desktop release. It can be downloaded here Forum Posting: Today we’re releasing a new build of Desktop for Mac that has two … Read more
Virtual Strategy Magazine conducted a podcast interview with Benjamin Rudolph, Marketing Manager for Parallels (Parallels Desktop) about virtualization on the Mac and how it’s help sell Intel-based Mac, and why it helps Macs at the enterprise level. There’s also a bit about Virtual PC being dropped by Microsoft. You can … Read more