Between Now and the Next 122 Years

In the year 2130, fission-powered zeppelins will roam the skies. In that time, the cyborgs who inhabit this planet shall invent an early-November holiday to make up for that intolerably huge gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving.

During this holiday, the Master Control Program and his followers shall celebrate two of man's greatest achievements - both of which took place during the month of November 2008:

-The election of a new United States President

-The release of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac

And the holiday shall be called "ObamaParallels_Day_00000001."

The response for Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac has been amazing, we have a great community out there - thank you all for your support (XOXO). If there are any internet nomads out there searching for a decent place to post comments (being related to Parallels, related to your dog, related to whatever) then you are most welcome to do so either in response to this blog, on our official forums, or on our Facebook and MySpace pages. Take your pick.

As amazing as we are, though, there are one or sixy-five questions I'd like to answer for our faithful fans; first of which being Parallels Mobile, a seperately available application used to start, stop and suspend your Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac VM remotely with an iPhone. This application is ready for use. It's simply unavailable from Apple's App Store until it's reviewed and published. We're currently waiting on that process and when it gets done, Parallels Mobile will be free for everyone to download and, as stated, usable to help manage Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac.

For those out there with an immediate urge to test drive Parallels Mobile, send me an e-mail at Leto@Parallels.com with your iPhone's UDID number (which can be looked up in iTunes) and we'll get you a copy pronto.

Secondly, there has been a wee bit of confusion as to whether Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac supports Intel VT-x2. 

Some of you out there just said "what the heck is a VT-x2?!"

Don't deny it, I heard you. I hear everything.

Simply put, Intel's VT-x2 (Virtualization Technology) is the second generation of virtualization technologies used in Intel CPU chipsets. Being incredibly new, not many CPUs on the market use this. For those that do, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac will run faster because of it. It's one of multiple factors in making Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac up to 50% faster than Desktop 3.0 for Mac, which already utilized the previous generation: Intel VT-x set.

For anybody in need of some extra help running, learning, or writing about Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, go to our resource page where you'll find more information than you ever wanted to know about our software. There are also some really shiny feature highlights over at our ParallelsTV channel on YouTube. Keep your eye on that channel, there's still plenty more to see.

Comments

[JR]

And in the year 2130, the long-awaited Alpha release of Parallels Workstation 3.0 will be announced.

[Sean Gibbons]

Oh, no. We'll be on version 3.1 by then, at the least.