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Please review the software and hardware requirements necessary for installing Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac below.
Software Requirements
| Primary Operating System | Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (including Leopard and experimental support for Snow Leopard) or higher running on an Intel® Mac. |
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Hardware Requirements
| Mac Computer | Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel®-based Mac:
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| Processors | Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel® Core Duo processor featured in new Intel® Macs::
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| Memory Requirements | 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended to run Windows Vista). Support for any memory configuration (up to 16 GB), without modifying your host system |
| Disk Space | Software Installation — 450 MB of available hard drive space for Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac installation (plus space to allocate to your virtual machine.) Virtual Machine Installation — Hard drive space allocation for virtual machines is dependent upon the guest operating system. 15 GB of available hard drive space is recommended per virtual machine for Windows and Linux. |
| CD-ROM | CD-ROM drive for installation (if applicable) |
| Networking | Internet connection is required to receive online Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac product updates |
| Display | 16-bit or 32-bit display adapter recommended |
Software Requirements for Guest OSs in Virtual Machines
| Supports 32- and 64-bit virtual machine operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Solaris — not included. | ||
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Hardware Requirements for Virtual Machines
| Processor | Virtualized Processor of host Mac |
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| Motherboard | Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset |
| Memory | Up to 8GB RAM available for each virtual machine |
| Keyboard | 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard |
| Mouse | PS/2 wheel mouse |
| Display | VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support 3D Graphics support (DirectX9.0 with Shaders Model 2, DirectX Pixel Shaders and OpenGL 2.0) Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE4) support |
| IDE Drives | Up to 4 IDE Devices; CD/DVD-ROM Drives, Virtual Hard drives or any combination of the two. Virtual Hard Drive from up to 2TB each |
| Floppy Drives | 1.44 Floppy drive mapped to FDD image file |
| CD Drives | CD/DVD-ROM drives mapped to physical drive, ISO or DMG image file Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines, play audio CDs, and read data from copy-protected CDs and DVDs. |
| Sound Card | AC’97-compatible sound card. Sound recording is supported |
| Serial Ports | Up to four Serial (COM) Port mapped to a socket or to an output file |
| Parallels Ports | Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports mapped to output file |
| Ethernet© Cards | Up to 16 Virtual NICs Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029 bridged to Apple Ethernet or Apple Airport adapter, connected to host-only or shared networking |
| USB Ports | USB 2.0 support; 8 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 1.1 ports |
Localized Versions
Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese and Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified). Check for local availability.
