{"id":60,"date":"2006-11-06T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/mac-procore-2-duo-users-and-boxedretail-parallels-desktop\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:22:42","slug":"mac-procore-2-duo-users-and-boxedretail-parallels-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/mac-procore-2-duo-users-and-boxedretail-parallels-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Pro\/Core 2 Duo Users and Boxed\/Retail Parallels Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/icon\/parallels_desktop.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  alt=\"Parallels Desktop\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>\nIf you bought the retail copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/parallels-desktop\/\">Parallels Desktop<\/a>, and have a Mac Pro or a Core 2 Duo-based Mac (iMac, new MacBook Pros), it is highly recommended that you upgrade to <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/parallels-desktop-installation-assistant-and-shared-networking\/\">Build #1970<\/a> of Parallels Desktop.  <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.parallels.com\/thread5512.html\">This thread<\/a> by Andrew at the Parallels support forum explains why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are a lot of complains from Mac Pro and newest Core 2 Duo Mac users about kernel panics or &#8220;grayed screen with different languages&#8221; on virtual machine startup.<\/p>\n<p>The problem in using old Parallels Desktop Build 1848 (or 1848.2) which was released prior to Apple announce of Mac Pro and Core 2 Duo Macs and it is not compatible with these Macs.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this build is still available in retail stores (even in Apple stores) and staff is not aware of this problem.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any problems with old retail version of Parallels Desktop &#8211; please upgrade it on build 1970! It can be freely download from our web site &#8211; http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/en\/download\/desktop\/ . Your permanent registration key will work with this version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Mac Pro\/Core 2 Duo Users and Boxed\/Retail Parallels Desktop\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/mac-procore-2-duo-users-and-boxedretail-parallels-desktop\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mac Pro\/Core 2 Duo Users and Boxed\/Retail Parallels Desktop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}