Awwww it’s not fair!!  Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3036 Beta is available for download — and it looks like it has some really cool features.    ….and as the name suggests only runs on Mac.

Check out all the cool features from this thread on the Parallels Forum, I’ve snipped the one that interest me:

  • Virtual Machines Catalogue. A very useful feature for those having more than one VM – now all of them are available through centralized VM catalogue which appears on each Parallels Desktop for Mac instance start in case you have more than one VM
  • One-click Virtual Machine Aliases:
     Automatically created by OS installation assistant or by drag-and-drop from title bar pressing Command-Option keys combination
     Clicking on Alias automatically starts the Virtual Machine
     Shutting down the VM automatically closes Parallels Desktop for Mac application
  • Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac. A long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa.
  • Coherency. Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS.
  • Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved. No more “wait 5-10 seconds” message on USB device connecting to Parallels Desktop for Mac.
  • Power On/Power Off/Suspend/Resume/Pause animation. Just try and see. :) We’re very interested in your feedback about the feature.

Words fail me, “I want a Mac?!“.  I’m impressed, The guys at Parallels  are really getting into their product.  If you browse through the forum you can them working with the beta community and shaping the product.  Worth a read.

I mean really, who would have thought that a piece of software [other than Halo] would inspire me so much to go out and buy hardware?  Check out this screen shot of “Coherency” from the forum:

 Parallels Coherency

Hmmmm…