How To Play PC Windows Games On Mac - Free Download!
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How to Play & Run PC games on your Mac Computer
Do you want to play Half-Life 2, Grand Theft Auto, Bioshock, Warcraft, Call of Duty or any other PC game on your Mac OS X?
With Intel's new Core Duo processors they introduced something called Virtualization, this allows an operating system to run inside another with little if any loss in CPU speed. Now gamers can play any PC popular and classic Windows titles on Mac using this easy to use tool to play pc games on Mac. You don't even need to leave Mac OS X to play your Windows games. Mac users have never been so lucky in terms of choice when it comes to Windows compatibility. Parallels is the best solution for Mac owners with an Intel chip for running Windows XP on their machine. With Parallels, Windows XP will be running on a "Virtual Machine", this means that OS X will be running like normal with Windows XP running inside a separate application, in effect two operating systems running at once.
With Intel's new Core Duo processors they introduced something called Virtualization, this allows an operating system to run inside another with little if any loss in CPU speed. Now gamers can play any PC popular and classic Windows titles on Mac using this easy to use tool to play pc games on Mac. You don't even need to leave Mac OS X to play your Windows games. Mac users have never been so lucky in terms of choice when it comes to Windows compatibility. Parallels is the best solution for Mac owners with an Intel chip for running Windows XP on their machine. With Parallels, Windows XP will be running on a "Virtual Machine", this means that OS X will be running like normal with Windows XP running inside a separate application, in effect two operating systems running at once.
Run Windows and Mac OS Both at Once
Play games on your mac using Parallels
With Parallels, unlike Boot Camp, you can run any version of windows, all the way back to Windows 3.1 - or even Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 or MS-DOS. All of this is made possible by a feature of Intel's Core Duo chips (called virtualization) that's expressly designed for running multiple operating systems simultaneously. How do Windows games running on an Intel Mac compare to a PC?
Parallels is fast
If you install Windows and play Windows games while booting Windows on an Intel-based Mac, you can expect performance roughly equivalent to a similarly-equipped Windows PC. If you want a Mac, but would like to play Windows games, just download Parallels for free, install Windows, and play your favorite PC games.
How fast is a Mac running Windows XP
Parallels provides "near-native performance"
Takes 100% advantage of Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors and Intel® VT-x hardware accelerated virtualization for near-native speed and rock-solid performance. Check out the virtualization benchmark testing. I tested my Macbook with Parallels to play Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 and the game performance was as good as you could expect from any laptop. Installation was painless, and both Windows and its games run magnificently on my Apple.
Are You Playing PC Games On Mac?
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Jarred
Nov 28, 2008 @ 3:38 pm | delete
- I use VMWare for AutoCad and other PC related things, including games. Its fast and the company has been virtualizing OS's for a while. Virtualization has been used for servers and its picking up speed. You can have 1 Server running multiple Virtualized services which makes each much safer and replaceable very quickly. Unlike 1 server running multiple services and if one goes down you loose the whole server while you rebuild or reboot.
I have tried Bootcamp, Parallels and VMware. The flexibility and speed of VMware Fusion is my pick.
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Tigs
Nov 6, 2008 @ 11:37 pm | delete
- I'm using bootcamp on my new macbook pro, but ll certainly get parallels!
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Ryan
Oct 30, 2008 @ 6:27 pm | delete
- Hell yes, even this comment has been written on a iMac! (in Windows, sadly =[)
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