Don’t Buy Parallels Desktop For Mac From A Retail Store
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 10:00 PM, Fri 29 Dec 06
Filed under: Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, Parallels Desktop For Mac
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When I recently bought my new MacBook Pro, I also picked up a copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac from the same store. That turned out to be a bit of a mistake.
I downloaded the latest beta of Parallels, only to find that the license key that came in the retail copy of Parallels wasn’t recognised by the beta. More than a bit puzzled (the instructions for the beta state that you can re-use your existing license key), I contacted Parallels’ support team for help.
It turns out that the retail copy of Parallels that I bought isn’t supported by Parallels at all. Not the customer service I was looking for. I have to go through the UK reseller for support.
Why do I have the feeling that this is going to turn into a saga? 
Don’t make my mistake - if you want to get yourself a copy of Parallels, make sure you download it from their website. Don’t waste your money on a boxed copy from a store.
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August 29th, 2008 at 8:12 am
forgert parallels entirely, virtual box maintained by sun is free as in beer and most of it is free as in freedom.
also before they had a working version in leopard i used vmware fusion, for linux it is as solid as a rock.
I love apple hardware, i also love mac os x as a client machine, and linux(suse user since 7.1) for more serious stuff.
P.S. Found your blog through - Franticly trying to find number for Box uk - for the something that was written for a large cartographic organisation i work for (it all came tumbling down last night) - linkedin profile - seed-linux - blog
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