Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac

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The killer app for Mac is now even better than ever!

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. With Parallels’ award-winning virtualization technology, you can run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!

Leading the way with our trademark innovation, Parallels Desktop 3.0 comes packed with 50+ new features and enhancements, including Snapshots, 3D graphics, and the new Parallels-only SmartSelect.

With Parallels Desktop 3.0 you can:

• Run Windows programs like native Mac applications with Parallels Coherence, now with Apple Expose' and transparent windows support

• New! Open Windows files with Mac apps and Mac files with Windows apps using Parallels SmartSelect

• Share files and folders between Windows and Mac OS X

• New! Access Windows folders and files without launching Windows using Parallels Explorer

• New! Run selected PC-only 3D games and graphics applications on your Mac

• Enhanced! Achieve maximum performance by leveraging Intel® Virtualization Technology

• New! Protect your Windows virtual machine with Parallels Snapshots

• New! Map Mac folders to Windows letter drives for quick and easy access to your favorite Mac files

• New! Keep your favorite files at your fingertips. Windows now mirrors the contents of your Mac's Home Directory.

• And more!

Parallels Workstation 2.2
for Windows & Linux

Parallels Workstation 2.2 is now available
Harness your PC’s full power and potential! Use Windows? Like Linux? Have it all on a single PC. Parallels Workstation is an easy-to-use, easy-on-the-pocket solution that lets you run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side on a single PC without rebooting.

Truly revolutionary, Parallels Workstation empowers users of any skill level - including computer professionals, sales executives, and home users - to easily run multiple operating systems on a single computer. Completely networked. Stable. Secure

Do more with your PC!

• Users upgrading to Windows Vista can run legacy software not fully compatible with the new OS in previous versions of Windows on the same PC.

• Computer professionals can run multiple applications, optimized for different operating systems, all at the same time and reduce dependency on specific hardware and OS configurations.

• Software engineers can test and support software, OSes, and configurations in different use scenarios and set up a menagerie of testing environments on their preferred platforms.

Parallels Compressor Workstation

Parallels Compressor® Workstation is a powerful, easy-to-use disk management tool that improves the performance of any Parallels, VMware and Microsoft virtual workstation running Windows by reducing the size of the virtual hard disk.

• Works with Parallels, VMware, and Microsoft products
  Compressor® Workstation works with virtual machines built with Parallels Workstation 2.2, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMware Workstation, and Microsoft Virtual PC.

• Optimized for desktop versions of Windows
  Parallels Compressor® is specifically designed to work with desktop versions of Windows, including Windows XP Professional and Home Editions SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1, and Windows 2000 Professional.

• Save on storage costs
  Parallels Compressor® maximizes available hard drive resources, which helps eliminate the need to buy an external hard drive, or a larger internal hard drive to accommodate growing number of virtual machines.

• Improve virtual machine performance
  By reducing hard-disk size and optimizing OS parameters, Parallels Compressor Workstation reduces virtual hard drive call times and speeds overall virtual machine operation.

• Reduce virtual machines to a portable size, without compromising performance
  Parallels Compressor® Workstation reduces virtual workstations to a size that can be easily burned to a CD or DVD or transferred to another machine via the Internet or a LAN.