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Parallels, the little virtualization software package that can, has just released another update, this time providing support for Mac OS X Leopard,the 64-bit Mac Pro and Windows Vista Beta.
This comes not long on the heels of the announcement a few weeks ago that they would be officially pursuing a way to provide 3-D support for Windows games to play inside Mac OS X with a minimal performance hit. With all of this, the advantage of Apple's Boot Camp strategy gets less and less.
Though I still don't have an Intel Mac (next-generation MacBooks, I hear you calling) myself, a brother of mine just got a MacBook and installed Parallels on it for the few Windows-only programs he uses for work. He was stunned to find that Windows ran a lot faster in virtualization on his Mac than it had on the one-year-old PC he had used up until then.
The dream of platform-agnosticism, hosted on Mac OS X, really isn't that far away...
Thanks, Ben.
