Brief Hands-On Report--Parallels Desktop for Mac RC2 is Out

Parallels released Release Candidate 2 of their Desktop for Mac v2.2. According to Parallels,

The Update RC2 includes the great improvement on support for the recently released quad-processor Mac Pro towers and 64-bit iMacs.

Now you need:

• No RAM limitations
  
• No hardware reconfigurations
  

while using Windows and it's critical applications on new 64-bit Mac Pro towers and iMacs.

We downloaded RC2 and the updated guides and installed it over RC1 (Build 1898) on our MacBook Pro--the new RC2 build is 1920. Our virtual machine of Windows XP SP2 launched and ran fine so we updated the Parallels Tools installation with the new build. During nearly an hour of general use, i.e. updating Windows XP, surfing and checking email, we ran into no problems. [Bill Fox]