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August 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Apple's Mac Pro and the Virtualization Question

As Apple proudly announced the launch of its fastest Mac ever, the new Intel-based Mac Pro running at speeds up to 3GHz and sporting a new 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processor, the questions started rolling in... what about virtualization support?

Parallels immediately went to work to try and answer those questions. Is Parallels Desktop for Mac compatible with the new Mac Pro tower? Ben Rudolph, Marketing Manager at Parallels, answers this question by stating, "Not yet. The new Mac Pros have a different CPU model, and work with a specifically optimized OS X kernel. It is not difficult to make Parallels compatible with either of these, but it does take a bit of time. We should have a compatible build very soon."

And when he says very soon, he really means it. Parallels hopes to have a compatible build out within the next few days. Not too bad, considering that Apple only recently announced the new Mac Pro product earlier this month.

Posted by David Marshall on August 31, 2006 05:45 AM


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How do I get the current video card in my Mac to show up in my virtual machine?

Posted by: Nathan at September 1, 2006 08:35 PM

GREAT PRODUCT, i bought a mac pro, since my macbook pro ran parallels so well. I have a few windows programs that i must run for my business.

But now when will the mac pro run parallels?

Posted by: David Cates at September 2, 2006 06:43 AM

Ben should get his company to provide some decent support for their present line of products. The sad truth is unless you're an industry journalist or have inside connections..pray you have no problems with Parallels. If you do there is only the web-site and a forum. No one answers the mail sent to support. Six weeks and waiting...

Posted by: RichO at September 2, 2006 04:10 PM

I'm with Rich; $80+ sure doesn't seem to get much user support out of the folks at Parallels. I'm not at the six week level yet -- just a week, give or take, so far and waiting ...

Posted by: PNRead at September 4, 2006 02:45 PM

Strange--I sent an email to tech support and was answered the next day.

Posted by: Steve Holland at September 5, 2006 12:45 PM

AND -- Does anyone know if Parallels will run on a new 24" iMac with Core 2 Duo (Merom) processors?

Posted by: KMc at September 6, 2006 11:56 AM

I haven't used the support email myself, but I know two people who have purchased the product and both of them have had great success with getting answers back from support. Good luck getting your problem addressed. Keep us posted!

Posted by: david marshall at September 6, 2006 04:24 PM

Sounds like a small growing company problem to me. Software product support is one of those areas that people are very rarely happy with. Try sending them another email. With such a new product, I'm sure they are getting a lot of support requests. A few are bound to slip out. My opinion only.

Posted by: Bill West at September 7, 2006 03:32 PM

Why run parallels on a macbook pro if you can already run windows via the intel chip? Is the performance better with parallels than the windows available on the macbook pro itself?

Posted by: esteban caracciolo at September 7, 2006 07:52 PM

When I called tech support for Parallels, they pushed me off and was not cooperative. I was sadly disappointed by their cavilier attitude, after I just bought their product.

Posted by: Jonathon at September 18, 2006 03:09 PM

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