Parallels 6 Prematurely Appears on Store Shelves

why didnt he buy it? :D

9to5MAc bought a copy, but had to take the post down.
They said it had full aero support, and was a little bit faster along with other things I don't remember.

stopped using parallels, using windows makes me violently ill.

9to5MAc bought a copy, but had to take the post down.
They said it had full aero support, and was a little bit faster along with other things I don't remember.

Parallel is good and all, but I am just more at home with Fusion. Nothing will get me to go to brand x.

9to5MAc bought a copy, but had to take the post down.
They said it had full aero support, and was a little bit faster along with other things I don't remember.

nice! P5 was an inmense improvement and was better at everything than VMware (before P5, VMware was the better one), and if P6 is even faster then even better!!:) what was the name of the title of the post, maybe it's still cached w/ google?

EDIT: here is what they wrote according to a comment on 9to5:
Parallels 6 for Mac is yet to be announced but has already hit some retailers in the U.S, and we’ve got our hands on the features:

-Supports Aero, Vista, and Windows 7
-Acronis true image support
-2x faster graphics support, faster file access, faster network connections, faster Windows startups, faster access to files on a network, and its faster than VMWare Fusion.
-Easy Windows Backups
-Better, Faster, Stronger gaming performance
-Windows and Mac security software included
-Easy migration to virtual machines
-Parallels Transporter is now a built-in, integrated feature in Parallels 6 versus a separate, stand alone application in Parallels 5.
-Support for 5.1 surround sound on Windows
-Spotlight, Spaces, and Expose support
-90 day money back guarantee (may depend on retail location?)
-Parallels 6 will cost $79.99, which was the old price of Parallels 5.

Here’s the big one:
-Parallels iPad app. As you may know, Parallels currently offers an iPhone/iPod touch app to access files and such remotely, but according to the back of the box, it works with the yet to be released iPad app as well. It also appears (we may get this one wrong) that the iPhone/iPod touch app will be enhanced for greater file access. We’ll have to see and we’re still wondering when this thing’s getting announced for real.

Requirements: 1GB of Ram (2 GB recommended), 450 MB hard drive minimum, 10.5 Leopard or 10.6 Snow Leopard, an internet connection, and of course a Windows OS disc.

9to5MAc bought a copy, but had to take the post down.
They said it had full aero support, and was a little bit faster along with other things I don't remember.

I got asked to beta test version 5 so I was surprised to see this version out so soon. But when I checked the version history, it does seem like this is on time. I guess we will have to wait until tuesday.

Gives me the ***** how they require you to pay for an update every 6 months. Well it may not be 6 months but that's what it feels like. :mad:

Parallels has such bad customer service, virtually no upgrade pricing.. I think both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox are better deals for their own reasons. I had parallels v2 and never bothered to upgrade because of the upgrade pricing BS.

Acronis true image support

This ALONE would make our IT department extremely happy as many of our consultants coming from South America tend to use Mac's and use Boot Camp. With a standard image for our Windows XP and soon Win7 this would be a HUGE boost and provide better support since we're still a windows environment. iPads are beginning to show up around the office - some odd 5-10 already amongst 200+ users.

Parallels has such bad customer service, virtually no upgrade pricing.. I think both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox are better deals for their own reasons. I had parallels v2 and never bothered to upgrade because of the upgrade pricing BS.

The upgrade to 5 was around half price. They sent an email every day for like 6 months. I mean, what do you want exactly?