Boot Camp works better with Parallels Desktop

Discover a better way to run Windows on a Mac


Many people aren’t aware of the differences between Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop. Although both allow you to run Windows on a Mac, that’s where the similarities end. Take your ’Windows on a Mac’ experience to the next level! Use Boot Camp with Parallels Desktop for greater flexibility and more options for running Windows on a Mac.


Parallels Desktop gives Boot Camp you more possibilities for running Windows on a Mac. Use the Boot Camp partition as a bootable volume disk in Parallels Desktop to run high-performance PC-only software at full speed in a Mac’s native hardware environment, access all of your system settings, peripheral devices, files and folders in your Parallels Desktop virtual machine.
You can even add the Boot Camp partition as a data disk for any Parallels Desktop virtual machine. Already using Boot Camp? Using that same Windows partition to take your Windows + Mac environment further by utilizing the integration features in Parallels Desktop.

Key Desktop Features for Seamless Windows-Mac integration:

  • Coherence — Run Windows programs like native Mac apps right on the Mac desktop

  • SmartSelect — Open Windows files with Mac apps and Mac files with Windows apps

  • Complete Shared Folders — Share files and folders back and forth between Windows and Mac OS X

  • Parallels Snapshots — ’Bulletproof’ your VM from mishaps and Windows system crashes

  • Use your favorite USB and other peripheral devices.

  • Drag-and-drop files and copy-and-paste data between Windows and Mac OS X

  • New! Reconfigure Boot Camp partitions on the fly

  • New! Save BIG — $175 in bonus software lets you safeguard and manage Windows with today’s finest in Internet security, data protection and disk management.


Buy Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac for only $79.99!

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that have become necessities in the virtualization world"
 — Infoworld.

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Parallels Desktop is the most useful and favorite
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