Mac App Store software 7x pricier than iPhone apps, 3x than on the iPad ().XCode 4 goes final, available in the Mac App Store for 5 bucks ().Parallels Transporter costs just 99 cents for a limited time, a huge saving compared to its standard retail price of forty bucks. Everything is recreated in appropriate locations on your Mac, including Windows programs and their supporting files which are moved into a virtual machine on your Mac.
The procedure involves running free Parallels Transporter Agent on your PC that collects your music, pictures, browser bookmarks, documents and other items and beams them over your wireless network (or saves to an external storage) over to the Parallels Transporter program running on your Mac. Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition will be available as a retail box edition in the Apple Store, and available for purchase online (as a boxed bundle), with a suggested retail price of $99.99US.This tool brings everything from your PC on your Mac in one fell swoop. I'm looking forward to doing a follow-up post and letting you know how it goes. If things go as planned, I'll be gleefully sitting back and letting them report in, gushing about how great their new Mac is, instead of frantically calling to find out what happened to their vacation photos. My wife's parents just bought their first Mac, and we'll be putting "Switch to Mac" through its paces. This is exciting news for switchers, but especially exciting for me as the family go-to guy for Mac questions. The whole setup is, of course, also included in the tutorials an ibuprofen for the headaches of running Windows on a Mac. Many users find comfort in being able to run their old applications while they make the switch, and in some cases you have to run Windows to maintain some vital applications with no Mac counterpart.
Lastly, the bundle includes a full version of Parallels Desktop for Mac, an excellent means of running Windows applications on your Mac. Mom won't even have to call you to figure out where to plug in the cable. The process is simple, but it's documented and simulated in the tutorials, so you really can't go wrong. The second tool is a new version of Parallels' Transporter tool, appropriately dubbed the "Enhanced Parallels Transporter." The bundle comes with a high-speed USB cable, and the Transporter automates the transition of PC data to a Mac, including your bookmarks, your photos, your documents, even your applications. following a lesson plan, or skipping to whatever is intriguing or vital at the moment. Once you complete a lesson, it's starred and you can move on. The "YouTry" feature is perfect for tactile learners (those who "learn by doing"), allowing you to put lessons into practice within the simulation - without the possibility of "breaking" anything in your working environment.
These are accompanied by a full simulation of the OS X environment, with tools which allow you to click anything on the screen to find out what it is, what it does, and/or how it works. The tutorials are viewable in a non-linear fashion to allow the user to learn what they need - or want - to know at any given point in their transition. "Watch Saied" is a collection of over 2 hours of video walkthroughs, narrated by Saied Ghaffari of Parallels (also the man behind the It's Time To Learn products we've posted about before). The first tool Parallels is offering is a set of interactive tutorials which cater to any learning style. It's a three-part tool that makes the switch from XP or Vista to OS X so easy that it hurts to think about the last time you tried to show a recent convert where their Start menu went. Parallels today announced their latest offering, Parallels Desktop "Switch to Mac" Edition. What's that whooshing sound? It's the collective sigh of relief from all of the Mac-lovers who've been wrangled into providing unofficial tech support for friends and family switching to Mac.