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Review Parallels Desktop 8 £64.99/$79.99 Running Windows on your Mac just got a whole lot easier Key features Windows apps Learn more… www.parallels.com Available from… www.parallels.com If you like this… You might also like… Windows 8 £24.99/$39.99 If you’ve ever been that little bit curious about Windows, now is the time to take the plunge. It’s the cheapest version of Windows yet. 124 Like it or loathe it, every Mac user faces a time where using Windows is unavoidable. Whether it’s fixing a family member’s PC or dealing with a work application that just won’t play ball with OS X, switching between operating systems is a necessary (if a little sad, at times) part of being a Mac user. Apple has accounted for this, shipping its own Boot Camp system with every machine and allowing you to restart your Mac and switch between operating systems in a matter of keystrokes. It’s limited, though, with no real integration between Windows and OS X – and that’s where Parallels comes in. Virtualisation has come a long way since it first appeared (in its many forms – some great, some absolutely woeful) on our Macs and it’s fair to say that Parallels is a shining example of just how great things have become. Weighing in at a mere 333.8MB, downloading Parallels was no problem and installing it on our iMac was easier than we thought, with the whole process taking around five minutes. One of Parallels’ greatest strengths is in its simplicity. Virtualisation may sound complex, but when you’re walked through the process of installing your extra operating systems (in our case, Windows 8 Pro and Chrome OS) it’s a joy to do – the hardest part came when deciding whether we went for a setup where Windows programs ran exactly like Mac apps or whether Windows itself was safely contained within its own window. Once everything was up and running (we opted for containing Windows 8 within its own window – but soon learnt we could switch between the two), Parallels’ prowess in this virtualisation field really did kick in. Switching between Mountain Lion and Windows 8 was perfectly seamless with little or no lag and little noticeable effect on Mountain Lion’s normal operation. In fact, when we ran Windows 8 in full-screen mode, it was hard to tell that it was running on a virtual machine at all. There were a few little idiosyncrasies that could do with being ironed out, such as Windows’ tendency to freak out when we used a swipe gesture on the trackpad, or OS X’s Dock making an appearance when we dragged our mouse to the corner of Windows 8 to bring back the Start menu. That said, these were the only negatives in an otherwise near-perfect experience of running Windows 8 on our iMac. Questions answered Because we get to play with stuff before you do… Why should I pay for Parallels when I can get Boot Camp for free? Surely they do the same thing? Although both options allow you to run Windows on your Mac, Parallels goes one better by actually integrating Windows apps right into OS X. They sit in the Dock like OS X apps and you can even drag fi les on to them to perform certain actions, like you would with an attachment in Mail, for example. It’s an incredibly slick experience. You mentioned you ran Parallels with the Chrome OS – does it work with anything else? Out of the box, there’s also the option of running Ubuntu, Android and a few others. You can even run Mountain Lion within Mountain Lion! Killer feature Mountain Lion integration It’s the little things that make all the diff erence – so pushing Windows’ notifi cations to Notifi cation Center when Parallels was hidden in the Dock and showing full-screen metro apps as separate spaces in Mission Control really does make the Parallels experience an impressive one. Buy now? Pros Painless setup, super-slick integration, little impact on OS X Cons Boot Camp may be more suitable, and we had a few hiccups with Windows 8
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