Parallels

d not get the "locked by firmware" message. I then set the level back to"High" and then restarted the VM. Again, no "locked by firmware" message. It appears that Parallels got out of sync somehow that changing the level corrected. Time will tell if this fixed the problem in the long run. ...

Parallels Workstation is a MacOS X application. To run Windows comfortably, you need 512 MB RAM. This means that PW requires this much plus additional RAM to cover its overhead. You also need RAM to run your other MacOS X tasks. Long story short, you need at least an additional 1GB RAM to handle PW.

Don't try to run it in Parallels. Parallels generally isn't good for games. Most games choke even on trying to "see" the CD when running the game. ...

Check to see if there is a patch for running WoW on intel based macs. Or, ironically, pickup bootcamp or parallels and run it under windows. ...

Yup..short answer, no parallels for PPC. Hardware issue there with the PPC. ...

just like you can only run intel OSs within Parallels on an intel Mac. ...

Parallels is looking into this. Although their plan (and the users' request) is to re-use a BootCamp partition, so one doesn't have to install Windows XP twice. I guess one of the problems is that the OS sees two completely different computers. A "real" one with ATi graphics or intel on-board graphics chip etc., and one that has emulated hardware. Windows XP, for example,...

just bridges what you're using on OS X. If that's WiFi, then Parallels will use that WiFi connection. ...

With everyone concentrating on Parallels it seems like everyone in the Macintosh world has forgotten Microsoft BU's VPC. ...

There's Parallels Desktop, and CodeWeavers' solution is said to be final this month as well. ...