Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac

Parallels Desktop - the first platform for Mac OS, which allows users to run Windows, Linux and other operating systems on your iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.Unlike other similar solutions are not necessary every time to turn off Mac OS, and you can run the necessary applications at once, within a minute. With the advent of Parallels Desktop in the computer world there was a small revolution, because the conflict of two competing operating systems at once lost its former importance. The user can now operate freely in his usual programs, combining the technical superiority of the Mac OS and the popularity of MS Windows.

Improvements in the fourth version include faster download virtual machines, components, according to the company, up 50 percent compared with the previous version.
New features such as Adaptive Hypervisor, Parallels can observe load balance between processes in the main and virtual operating systems. The car creating a virtual environment has also been upgrading and now consumes 15-30 percent less system resources than previous versions. And increased productivity when working with graphics, by adding support for graphics libraries for DirectX 9, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0.

To further increase the speed of Parallels for each virtual system can now use 8 processors and 8 GB of RAM.

The new view mode Modality allows the "transparency" of the guest operating system so that users can monitor the activity of a virtual machine in the background. An improved mode of Coherence. Now when you switch to this mode, the elements of the Windows taskbar, go to menu bar Mac OS, so the user can get easier access to them.
In addition, virtual operating systems can now be run in Safe Mode, Safe Mode. And it works the same way as if to boot normally. The exceptions are changes made while running in Safe Mode and not saved by the user.

Software Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.11 (including Leopard and experimental support for Snow Leopard) or higher running on an Intel Mac.

Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel-based Mac:

• iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Pro Tower

Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel Core Duo processor featured in new Intel® Macs::

• Intel® Core Solo, Intel® Core Duo, Intel® Core 2 Duo, Intel® Dual-Core Xeon
• Includes full support for Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)
• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended to run Windows Vista). Support for any memory configuration (up to 16 GB), without modifying your host system
• 450 MB of available hard drive space for Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac installation (plus space to allocate to your virtual machine.)