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When youre dealing with operating systems, there will always be a few unusual and minor things that pop up.

Weve chosen Parallels as our favorite thanks to its excellent performance, ease of use, and fantastic Mac-specific feature set.

Installation was never complicated in the first version of Parallels, but now you pretty much just give it a disc (or disk image) and it handles the entirety of the installation for you.

Since version 6 (current version is 7) Ive been repeatedly surprised at how fast it runs and how easy it is to set up a virtual machine.

You can always count on things getting faster and easier with each new version.

Advertisement Parallels was designed to work with Microsoft Windows.

While it certainly supports Linux and Mac OS X virtualized environments just fine, Windows is clearly the focus.

This is evident when you start using your virtualized environment and see how integrated Windows becomes.

With Coherence Mode enabled, you can even run any Windows app like its natively supported.

Itll show up in your dock, have its own window, and respond like its a Mac app.

You can also run Windows full screen, in a Window, or in Modality Mode (which makes your virtual machine transparent).

If youre looking to run more than Windows, Parallels can handle Linux and Mac OS X as well.

You can even install OS X Lion from the restore partition on your existing Mac.

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The overall idea behind Parallels Desktop seems to be taking the pain and tedious effort out of virtualization, and, in this regard, the software is very successful.

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Since we tend to opt for free software in most cases, Parallels 80 price tag might seem a bit high.

You do get a good discount on upgrades, however, as those usually are priced at 50 (and often 40 when first released).

If youre looking for something a little more free, check out our competition section.

Advertisement As for issues with the software itself, there isnt much to speak of.

Sometimes finding a particular setting in your virtual machine can be daunting because there are a remarkable number of options.

Setup is so simple that when you go in to edit your machines preferences its almost shocking that there is so much available to configure.

Once you get used to where things are it isnt bad, but it seems contrary to the simplicity found in the majority of the Parallels Desktop application.

These little things should be expected with pretty much any virtualization software, just as they should be expected with any computer.

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