Brief Hands-On Report--Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 1940

Parallels posted Build 1940 of Desktop for Mac, replacing Build 1922 released September 28. Build 1940 can be downloaded from this Parallels Web page.

This build has improved support for Mac Pro memory--up to 16GB, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard."

We downloaded Build 1940 and installed it over the copy of Build 1922 on our 15" 2.16GHz MacBook Pro. Then we launched Parallels Desktop for Mac, opened our Windows XP virtual machine and installed the latest version of Parallel Tools from the VM pull-down menu. We don't have much use for Windows these days so we don't use it much. We updated XP with 7 security updates that have come out in the past two weeks, did some web browsing with Firefox and checked email using Thunderbird. No problems were encountered.

Then we created a new virtual machine and installed Windows Vista RC1. Vista seems to work as well as XP but it does run just a bit slower. The only problem that we encountered is that the caps lock key is reversed from normal, i.e. the light is on when typing small characters and off when typing caps. [Bill Fox]