Parallels Desktop for Mac

New Features

What's new in Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac?

Improved installation and interface

• Works with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and supports full-screen capabilities, Launchpad for Windows apps, Misson Control and more
• Easy to install on MacBook Air
• More Mac-like experience when running Windows and Mac applications side-by-side
• Virtual printing is fast and easy with all Mac printers accessible in Windows
• Share your iSight or FaceTime HD camera with Windows applications
• Run Office 2010 on your Mac with complete support for features such as Mission Control and gestures
• New Parallels Wizard helps you get up and running more easily than ever before.

Better management and mobility

• Longer battery life when using Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac on your laptop/notebook
• Parental controls that you set for your Mac are automatically applied to your Windows virtual machine
• Improved virtual machine encryption with Intel AES-NI
• Access your Mac and Windows applications on the go from your iPad, iPhone or iPod (available for purchase separately, in the iTunes App Store).

Improved performance

• Improved virtual machine boot time
• Pause and resume Windows faster
• Networking throughput is faster
• Migration of PC faster
• Work with files on Mac faster.

Enhanced gaming and graphics

• Assign up to 1GB video memory to a virtual machine
• Support for high quality audio (up to 192 KHz)
• Support for more modern games
• Surround Sound 7.1 support for Windows 7, Vista, XP
• DirectX 9.0c/9Ex and Shader Model 3 support for enhanced gaming and graphical applications.

Features

• Runs more than 60 operating systems in a virtual environment - including most Windows operating systems such as Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, multiple Linux distributions, Mac OS X Server and more
• Run Windows applications directly, with near native performance, on Mac OS X
• Seamlessly share files between Mac OS X and the Window's guest operating system
• Use SafeMode to enable you to reset and restore virtual machines for private and secure computing
• Take advantage of the latest technologies, such as Intel VT-x2, OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9Ex to provide maximum performance and to run games and 3D applications virtually
• Control Windows applications in new ways with Multi-touch gesture support and Apple Remote and iPhone support for remote control
• USB support for connecting removable drives, printers, scanners and more.

System Req.

Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
• Minimum 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of memory is recommended
• About 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation
• About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.

Software Requirements

• Mac OS X Lion 10.7
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 or later
• Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 or later.

Note: Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.x is not supported in this version of Parallels Desktop.

Supported Guest Operating Systems

• 32-bit operating systems - Windows 7, Windows Vista SP 0, SP 1, SP 2, Windows Server 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows Server 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows XP Professional SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows XP Home SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows 2000 Server SP4, Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6, Windows ME, Windows 98 SE, Windows 95, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS 6.22, Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12, Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, CentOS 5.x, 4.x, Debian 5.0, Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, OpenSUSE Linux 11.x, Mandriva 2010, 2009, Solaris 10, Open Solaris 2009.06, FreeBSD 8.x, 7.x, OS/2 Warp 4.5, 4, eComStation 1.2, Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (on Lion only), Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7, Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x.
• 64-bit operating systems - Windows 7, Windows Vista SP 0, SP 1, SP 2, Windows Server 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows Server 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0, Windows XP Professional SP2, Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x, Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12, Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.0, Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, OpenSUSE Linux 11.x, Mandriva 2010, 2009, Solaris 10, Open Solaris 2009.06, FreeBSD 8.x,7.x, Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x.