I'm considering buying a new 15' Mac Book Pro with Retina display, which has the. Parallels was actually the first VM I loved; it's very smooth, fast, reliable. So after you install Windows using bootcamp, you can see the OSX. However, more RAM is obviously better to make hem run smoother side. Bought a high-end gaming laptop about a year and a half ago and the thing is already shitting the bed, so I decided it was time to switch.
1st time (and probably last time) Mac user. Just bought Macbook Pro for wife.
She uses Quickbook Pro for our business - so bought Office and QB Pro for Mac. Unfortunately QB for Mac sucks as it doesn't allow us to do credit cards, pull up customer list, etc. so she says to trash the Mac or get a way to use QB Pro for Windows on Mac. Voila - I buy Parallels, Windows XP and load Parallels. Seems to load just fine and then follow instructions to load Windows XP For Home Edition.
It seemed to load ok (although it did load twice, so I have one Microsoft Windows XP and one Win XP to pick from), but neither does more than the following: a black box opens that says: ' Parallels (R) 3.0 build 4128 (c) 2005-2007 Parallels Software International Inc. 640 KB Base Memory 524288 KB Extended Memory Boot from hard drive. And it stays there 5 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, etc. Nothing happens. I'm open for advice, suggestions, etc. And if those suggestions include lighter fluid, a match and a silver bonfire, I'm open to that too.
I gotta get this fixed or get her a different computer to keep the wife happy (quickly). Thanks Don in Texas (yes - you can email me directly at if you wish to and have ideas that will help). I would be surprised that the accountants wanted to go Mac simply for the accounting software. The economics are not there.
So swaring off Mac big time, is probably hurting them more than anyone else. The issue here is, don't expect software to run on different OS platforms in the same way. Most often, one platform is a port from the other. This inevitably causes some functionality loss or delayed time to market. On the Mac you can run PC virtualisation, which apparently was encountering problems to the DONSELF1. Has this issue been resolved because it is standard Parallels (or VMware fusion, or Bootcamp) functionality.
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1st time (and probably last time) Mac user. Just bought Macbook Pro for wife. She uses Quickbook Pro for our business - so bought Office and QB Pro for Mac.
Unfortunately QB for Mac sucks as it doesn't allow us to do credit cards, pull up customer list, etc. so she says to trash the Mac or get a way to use QB Pro for Windows on Mac.
Voila - I buy Parallels, Windows XP and load Parallels. Seems to load just fine and then follow instructions to load Windows XP For Home Edition. It seemed to load ok (although it did load twice, so I have one Microsoft Windows XP and one Win XP to pick from), but neither does more than the following: a black box opens that says: ' Parallels (R) 3.0 build 4128 (c) 2005-2007 Parallels Software International Inc. 640 KB Base Memory 524288 KB Extended Memory Boot from hard drive. And it stays there 5 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, etc.
Nothing happens. I'm open for advice, suggestions, etc. And if those suggestions include lighter fluid, a match and a silver bonfire, I'm open to that too. I gotta get this fixed or get her a different computer to keep the wife happy (quickly). Thanks Don in Texas (yes - you can email me directly at if you wish to and have ideas that will help).
Let me be honest be with you, thr is nothing better than Parallels but again if you know how to use it and now your problem. I am assuming that you have XP-license key etc. Open your parallels click settings in it remove that hardrive icon for that click on remove.
Than click add and scroll options it will show you hardware you can install. Clickhardrive on it, than type the size in MB CLick on then proced to OS you want to install Click XP express settings and follow the instructions like putting XP bootable disk, you would be able to get thru this. If you still face issues do let me know.
I have a user who just bought a macbook and loaded parallels on it and Windows 7. He now trying to access our companies resource on our Windows network from Windows 7. He can not see any company resource on the network.
I would think he needs to join the domain and logon through Windows to see the company resources. It is required to run some of our applications. He can see the network on the Mac OS side. When we try to join the domain it returns an error saying no domain found. Yes - we are plugged in to the network and can get to the internet. Does anyone have any suggestions on what we are missing to get Windows 7 to behave like other PC machines in our network? The macbook is brand new and we are using Parallels 6 and Windows 7 professional.
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All clean installs.