PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 FOR MAC -
YOUR "VIRTUAL MACHINE"

Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac actually simulates another computer running inside your Mac. This computer-within-a-computer has its own operating system, its own software suite, and its own "screen."

You might call it a PC simulator or a mock computer. But in the software industry, it has a standard term: a virtual machine. Each time you start up Parallels Desktop for Mac, you're actually turning on a virtual machine running Windows or whichever operating system you specify.

Each virtual machine behaves as though it's running on a PC with these components:

• Intel Pentium processor
• Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset
• Up to 1500 MB of RAM
• NEW! Open GL 1.5 / DirectX 8.1 support - Run games and 3D applications at native speed in Windows. Click here for a list of supported games.
• USB 2.0 - Use external hard drives, printers, scanners and web cameras including iSight
• CD/DVD drive - Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines
• Monitor with VESA 3.0 support
• A floppy disk drive (mapped to an image file)
• Up to four IDE disk drives or CD-DVD-ROM drives
• Ethernet network card compatible with RTL8029
• Wi-Fi wireless networking card
• Up to four serial (COM) ports
• Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports
• Standard PC keyboard
• PS/2 scroll-wheel mouse