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Parallels 4 Out Now: 50% Faster Than Parallels 3

By Mark Wilson on November 12, 2008 at 12:45 AM

Those running Intel Macs are probably at least familiar with Parallels, the famed virtualisation software allowing you to run Windows alongside OSX. Well now the company has just announced their fourth revision of the software, Parallels 4, that promises to run 50% faster than the previous version.


The virtualisation engine itself promises to use 15-30% fewer resources as well, while adding the option to run a Leopard Server in a virtual machine and including support for DirectX 9, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0. There are 50 new features and enhancements in all.

Parallels 4 is available now for $US80, existing Parallels customers can pick it up for $US40 and if you bought Paralells 3 on or after September 1st, you actually qualify for a free upgrade. Two months of lead time on free software upgrades? Not bad! [Parallels via MacWorld]

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  • Neil MacKenzie
    November 13, 2008 at 11:18 AM

    Just upgraded my 2.4 GHz macbook pro from parallels 3 to 4 now XP pro runs like treacle. Resumes much more slowly, suspends much more slowly, apps launch much more slowly, so what’s faster?

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