Brief Hands-On Report--Parallels released Desktop for Mac 3.0 Build 5160 Final Feature Update

We have been reporting on the beta builds of Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0 for some time now. Parallels just released Build 5160, the final build of the feature update to version 3.0. It is available within the application's "Check for Updates" under the Help menu or as a stand-alone file via MacUpdate.

There are many improvements from the first stable build 4560 of Desktop for Mac v3.0. See the PDF enclosed with Build 5160 for a complete list.

We uninstalled Build 5158 beta, downloaded Build 5160 and installed Build 5160 with no problems. When we launched our Windows XP SP2 virtual machine to install the new Parallels Tools, we got an error message and had to reboot our MacBook Pro. After rebooting we installed the new Parallels Tools and restarted XP with no problem. We're on travel and don't have our Vista Ultimate virtual machine to test.

We used Windows XP SP2 extensively with Office 2007 applications and encountered no problems. Build 5160 seems to be much faster than previous versions of Desktop for Mac--it is very fast. [Bill Fox]