We had a chat with the Parallels guys earlier today , and got some newfangled information that should be very interesting to people who are even the svelte bit interested in running Windows on your Mac .
We went over some of the stuff we coveredyesterday , but there ’s batch of new stuff and even one major feature we did n’t cite : Snapshots .
https://gizmodo.com/parallels-3-0-supports-3d-windows-gaming-smartselect-264979
First off , the three major features are 3D graphics support , SmartSelect , and Snapshots .
3D graphics support is the shiniest feature everyone ’s talk about now . Yes , it will plump for 3D game like Quake and Half Life , but no , mighty now it does n’t support Vista Aero — that ’s add up in a later release .
Parallels could n’t give me an exact number when I asked for how much of a performance gap there ’d be between running a game in Parallels and running it in aboriginal Boot Camp , but they did say that it ’s very close to aboriginal and you would n’t really notice any gameplay trouble . That , of course , depend on the game , but Half Life 2 ran fine on his machine .
One thing to note is that not all game will be supported by nonpayment . They ’ll have a list of games they support , and the list will be updated whenever there ’s a novel build available . Hopefully your game will be supported at launch , but Parallels has a report for publish frequent , and top - notch , updates .
The second major feature article is SmartSelect , which allows you to set a preference for spread out any file in any program , no matter which OS it ’s in . model : you could set text files to open up up in Windows Notepad , so even if you double - dawn it in OS X , it ’ll still pop open Notepad . Think of it as an filename extension of Coherence , which lets you run Windows apps in its own windowpane on OS X.
On a side bill , if you ’re in Windows and you look in your start bill of fare , you ’ll be able to see all of the OS 10 apps listed under a Parallels folder , and have a similar pick for opening Windows apps in OS X. Neato .
The third major lineament is Snapshots , which allow you take a snapshot of your practical car so you could revert to it if something ’s wrong . Do this before you instal apps or make any major changes , and you ’ll have something to fall back on in pillowcase anything go haywire .
It ’s super useful for software tester or hoi polloi who make change to their O , and only takes up minimal elbow room on your hard drive per snapshot .
All in all , the guy cable severalize us that besides the new features , everything else is more robust than even version 2.5 , which just came out recently . With their track record , we believe them .
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