Friday, June 8, 2007

Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth. [Slashdot] comment []10:02:16 PM

Parallels for Mac now plays 3-D graphics. (InfoWorld) - Parallels is upgrading its desktop virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac computer, adding, among other things, 3-D graphics capability. Parallels Desktop 3.0, which became available Thursday, allows a Mac desktop user to run the Windows OS from Microsoft, or Linux or other operating systems, alongside the Mac OS X from Apple without having to reboot. By supporting the OpenGL and DirectX graphics libraries, version 3.0 makes popular Windows 3-D a [IDG InfoWorld] comment []8:20:33 PM

Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS. When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years. [Digg / Technology] comment []4:05:21 PM

Parallels 3.0 goes live with DirectX, OpenGL, much more--flash review coming. Even if Apple had no news of its own to report from its Worldwide Developer Conference, it could count on Parallels to, once again, make Apple look brilliant. I was literally writing up my experiences with the beta of Parallels Desktop 3.0 when my BlackBerry buzzed with e-mail from Parallels saying that the product has gone live. Parallels is going to try to hook me up so that I can do a review tonight that posts tomorrow. The 3-D advantage isn't the whole story, but it is bigger news than it seems. 3-D was an advantage that was exclusively... READ MORE [Enterprise Mac] comment []2:26:37 AM

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