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| ![Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XBcQjLHKL._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Nova Development US
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.92
You Save: $35.07 (44%)
New (31) Used (7) from $38.99
Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 229
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X Intel
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 1.5 x 7.5 x 5.2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100722
Model: 23707
UPC: 727298404005
EAN: 0727298404005
ASIN: B000GHIV2Q
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: SAME 2008 RETAIL BOX VERSION 3.0 AS DISPLAYED WITH INTACT (UPC) BAR CODE FOR REGISTRATION,UPGRADE & TECH SUPPORT ELIGIBILITY * CONTAINS ALL PRODUCT LICENSES ,WARRANTIES, REGISTRATION NUMBERS & USER GUIDE * NEED IT NOW? SAME DAY SHIPPING BY A VETTED 5 STAR STAFF THAT E-MAILS YOU A USPS DELIVERY CONFIRMATION NUMBER SO YOU CAN TRACK YOUR ORDER FROM OUR DOOR TO YOURS FOR WORRY FREE TRANSACTIONS!
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 21-25 of 271
 Too complicated! January 14, 2007
Jon H. Starnes (Texas)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have a PowerMac G5 and Dell notebook. The notebook went bad so purchase MacBook with Windows XP and Parallels. After working all day getting Parallels and Windows installed and up and running, I thought my life was great. Then after a week things quite working. Parallels would not boot Windows no matter what I tried. The manual is not written for the average business user and has several mistakes in it. They provide an additional manual to try to correct the mistakes in the first manual with such things as, " on Page 3 replace step 4 with the following . . . next place the content of . . . in the second bullet, the name should be corrented . . ." Then you have to go to their website to find corrections to these corrections. The manual is written in true computer geek language and not for the person that doesn't make his living working on and with computers. Parallels offers support at $30/call or by email that doesn't work. They only work during business hours on West coast time. Suggestion - if you need Windows, buy a PC of Boot Camp.
Where's the tech support? August 1, 2006
Thomas Myers
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
I followed all of the instructions in the Quick Start guide to the letter. Generally I got the same response from my MacBook Pro that they showed in the guide. Then, I got to a point where it just stopped doing anything. I took the same steps as the first time making sure that I hadn't screwed something up. Low and behold, the same problem arose. I went to the publisher's website, registered, and sent an email to tech support about my issue. The response I got back was something to the effect of "we value your feedback" not "we'll get back within 24 hours." Of course, I've never heard "boo" from tech support dudes at Nova in several days. I'm stuck with software that won't install (but can be returned) and the one thing I never wanted to own (and cannot be returned)--my own personal copy of Windows XP. Steer clear of this program.
Warning! Does not work on Mac Pro w/o some workarounds September 5, 2006
P. Steverson (Texas)
8 out of 20 found this review helpful
I was all excited about this program until I tried to load the shareware program. Apparently, this software is not usable on MacPro yet. No where did I find that written until trying to download the shareware program and running into problems which led me to do a search for fixes. Found some information after a search on a meta search engine that sent me to http://forum.parallels.com/ , which BTW is not under Support on the Parallels website. AAHHHH! The aggravation! It may work great on other machines but not on the Mac Pro. So far I've been able to configure a virtual machine but everytime I go to "power" it I get an error message - no communication with hypervisor. Currently trying the workaround mentioned in the forum. Jury is still out on that.
 Coherence! February 13, 2007
S. Hoffmann (California)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
After 16 years of using PC's and always wondering why anyone would buy a Mac I finally made the conversion after I "had had enough" of windows.
I am a business owner and I rely heavily on Microsoft Office, with most of my reliance on Outlook, Word, and Excel. I looked at the Mac version of these programs and they are just not the same and cannot do what the Windows versions do. I researched for many days and many long hours and had many more hours of debate with PC advocates before I made my decision to part ways with my PC.
While I was researching my options I figured my best bet at having the best of both worlds would be Bootcamp, especially since Apple will be including it in their next OS release; Leopard. My plan was to get Parallels and make the most of it until Bootcamp was out of Beta and in full operation with Leopard.
I purchased a Mac Pro and with it a copy of Parallels. After initial installation I found it to be a good program with some limitations and but it had a very good rendition of "the best of both worlds" by running both OS's; I could do all of my business operations without too many problems.
Then I updated to the latest release of Parallels that has Coherence! This was a changing point in my view of this product and at this point I could care less about Bootcamp and what it has to offer! My desktop now displays both OS's seamlessly, I can run every MS Office program and every OS.X program side by side on my OS.X desktop!
I was giddy like a little school kid when I first ran Parallels in coherence mode. After 16 years of computer use I had finally found the "best of both worlds", I was now running the best of both OS's on one system!
Are there still issues with this program? Yes. I only gave it 4 stars because there is room for improvement and I have a strong feeling that the next full version of Parallels will address these and truly have a seamless crossover program. But, I can cut and paste between OS's, I haven't found a program or project I can't complete.
If you are still using a PC.....get with the times my friend! If PC makers and Windows are not scared of Apple right now, they should be....they should be very, very, scared!
 Great product -- Windows on Mac February 16, 2007
NewMac Pro
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this product. I've been in the windows realm for over a decade, and have used PCs in my career as a windows server administrator. However, my motto in business has always been to "use the right tool for the right job" and am therefore not stuck on MS products. Just getting into Macs, I needed something to run all the Windows software I own, as I didn't want to fork out hundreds of dollars more to purchase the Mac version when I already owned a copy. So I spent the money on this great product, only to find out it didn't appear to allow you to use the Upgrade version of XP.
After some choice words, I decided to do some research of my own and try different things like I do for my job. Hey, it isn't always in the manual nor is it always straight-forward. So I decided to try a typical installation, which asks for the installation key up front. It goes along starting the installation when it finds no previous version, and asks me to insert it into CD. After some more fumbling around, I realized that I could release the CD-Rom control back to OS X, eject my XP CD, put in my NT Workstation CD for upgrade verification, return control back to OS X and eject again, and finally put the XP CD back in to let the install continue. The only caveat is that I had to call MS to state that I was re-installing this CD. This allowed me to not waste the XP Upgrade CD I already owned (and aren't using on any PCs) on my Parallels disk. It works great. Please note that you do need to have lots of RAM. I have 1.5GB of RAM, and I supply XP 768MB per the recommendation to not allocate more than half your ram. It runs windowed or full screen better than my PC (it darn well should when it has 2-3x the horsepower under the engine on my "ancient" 3 year old PC).
Definitely worth the money and definitely worth trying to get it to install XP with a copy you already own than to spend the money on a full version.
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