Parallels Desktop 8 has been made available for public purchase,
offering faster graphics and improved startup and resume times over
previous versions. If you need to run Windows or any other operating
system on your
Mac,
then while dual booting is arguably the fastest and most stable option
for executing code, another approach that perhaps has more utility is
virtualization, where you can open a window to the hardware on your
system and allow a second operating system to run simultaneously.
