{"id":1519,"date":"2006-07-18T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T08:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/parallels-desktop-for-mac-run-windows-and-mac-os-x-together\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:22:27","slug":"parallels-desktop-for-mac-run-windows-and-mac-os-x-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/parallels-desktop-for-mac-run-windows-and-mac-os-x-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallels Desktop for Mac : Run Windows and Mac OS X Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big advantage of the new <strong>Intel powered Mac computers<\/strong> is that users can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/bootcamp-installs-windows-xp-on-apple-mac-computers\/\">Bootcamp<\/a> to install and run either the <strong>Apple Mac OS X or Windows XP<\/strong> at start up. Now another tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/en\/products\/desktop\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Parallels Desktop for Mac<\/a> lets Apple users run Windows, Linux or any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<h3>How is Parallels Desktop for Mac different from Bootcamp?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Bootcamp<\/strong> provides a dual-boot solution, where Apple users decide which OS to use on start up &#8211; they choose Mac OS X or Windows XP and the system boots into the selected OS. So basically you use Windows OR Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallels Desktop for Mac<\/strong> lets users run important Windows programs and get full usability and functionality of their Mac OS X machine simultaneously. You need not completely shut down Mac OS X and restart Windows. Parallels makes both operating systems available at the same time and to do this, Windows runs like a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallels Desktop for Mac includes Parallels Compressor<\/strong>, a powerful built in tool that can improve virtual machine performance and conserve hard drive space by reducing the size of virtual hard disk images by 50% or more. Parallels Desktop for Mac is easy to download, install and use and builds a virtual machine quickly using helpful wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Parallels Desktop for Mac is available for only $79.99!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big advantage of the new Intel powered Mac computers is that users can use Bootcamp to install and run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}