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I don't think even twice as fast performance will convince me to buy another Parallels upgrade when they treat their customers like this: http://www.reddit.com

by Flow 14y ago

I don't think even twice as fast performance will convince me to buy another Parallels upgrade when they treat their customers like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_hate_the_popup_advertising_heres/ http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_h... Every time I started Parallels I got a huge window asking me to register in order to get software updates. And when I did I got ads instead. :-(

duskwuff 14y ago
Agreed -- with the constant promotional popups on launch, running Parallels starts feeling like you're using an ad-supported product. Except you still have to pay for it! And no, there's no way to completely turn them off. Each individual promo popup has a checkbox that'll make it stop showing up, but that's useless, because they run so many promos. Even the super-secret "defaults write" command that Parallels support hands out only works until you next update Parallels.
mikhailt 14y ago
Try this, it helped me: defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES I really don't want to upgrade because of this BS. I don't know if switching to VMWare is worth it.
Derbasti 14y ago
Funny. I just had a call from a very nice VMWare customer service agent after a few days of exchanging emails: Office 2013 on Win 8 has graphical glitches in Fusion 5 if 3D acceleration is enabled. While he did not have a fix for me, he did tell me about a workaround (disabling 3D accelleration) and reassured me that the problem is known and actively being worked on. Considering that both Win 8 and Office 2013 are prerelease software, I am entirely fine with that. And to get back to the point: that phone call was extremely pleasant and really gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that they actually care about my problems. That, honestly, is worth a lot to me. Indeed more than a few percentage points of performance.
crag 14y ago
Parallels has terrible customer service. And frankly until i can play Skyrim in it any VM decently, I'll be using bootcamp. BUT I do use Fusion to access my bootcamp drive. And it works like a charm. I don't game that way, but I do develop that way. Sometimes.

by Flow 14y ago

duskwuff 14y ago

Agreed -- with the constant promotional popups on launch, running Parallels starts feeling like you're using an ad-supported product. Except you still have to pay for it! And no, there's no way to completely turn them off. Each individual promo popup has a checkbox that'll make it stop showing up, but that's useless, because they run so many promos. Even the super-secret "defaults write" command that Parallels support hands out only works until you next update Parallels.

mikhailt 14y ago

Try this, it helped me: defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES I really don't want to upgrade because of this BS. I don't know if switching to VMWare is worth it.

Derbasti 14y ago

Funny. I just had a call from a very nice VMWare customer service agent after a few days of exchanging emails: Office 2013 on Win 8 has graphical glitches in Fusion 5 if 3D acceleration is enabled. While he did not have a fix for me, he did tell me about a workaround (disabling 3D accelleration) and reassured me that the problem is known and actively being worked on. Considering that both Win 8 and Office 2013 are prerelease software, I am entirely fine with that. And to get back to the point: that phone call was extremely pleasant and really gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that they actually care about my problems. That, honestly, is worth a lot to me. Indeed more than a few percentage points of performance.

crag 14y ago

Parallels has terrible customer service. And frankly until i can play Skyrim in it any VM decently, I'll be using bootcamp. BUT I do use Fusion to access my bootcamp drive. And it works like a charm. I don't game that way, but I do develop that way. Sometimes.