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Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac
Stephen Withers
Monday, 22 March 2010 17:08
Virtualisation software is especially popular among Mac owners who want the flexibility to run Windows applications without having to restart in a Boot Camp installed operating system. How does Parallels Desktop 5 shape up?
If you've ever used a virtualisation product, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that the amount of physical memory is important when it comes to performance. My iMac has 3 GB of RAM (more than the minimum that Apple ships, but a fairly modest amount these days) and once Parallels is launched it takes around a minute and a half to restore a suspended VM.
For comparison, my Windows PC (with a 3.16 GHz Core 2 Duo rather than the iMac's 2.4GHz) starts Windows 7 from cold in 50 sec.
A lot of the delay seems to go on paging out other Mac applications that are running, and if you tend to have as many applications on the go at once as I do, you may notice further pauses when switching between them if Parallels is running. (My Windows 7 VM seemed to take up over 800 MB of real memory, which is a fair chunk out of 3 GB.)
Telling Parallels to optimise its operation for Mac OS X performance rather than Windows performance did seem to help a little in workaday use.
What about Mac/Windows integration? See page 2.
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