Every year, Macworld reviews hundreds of products, everything from Apple’s newest desktops and laptops to smaller utilities from smaller developers that do things you never thought you needed done. But which ones were the most useful or innovative? Which ones will we still be using a year from now? Which ones were really the best—in terms of both quality and value? Answering these questions is what the Editors’ Choice Awards are all about.
The yearly job of selecting Eddy winners starts in the fall, when every Macworld editor compiles a list of the most significant products released in the past year in his or her assigned beat areas.
Products released between November 1, 2005, and November 1, 2006, were considered for this year’s Eddy Awards.
We then convene a series of meetings to debate the merits of each nominee, and to separate the truly exceptional from the merely good. This year, we whittled a list of 120 products down to the 29 that you’ll find extolled on the following pages. Some are obvious choices, and some may surprise you—but all represent the best of a very good year for the Mac market.
And one of the winners was Parallels Desktop for Mac!
They write: Every so often, a product that defines its market segment comes along. Parallels Desktop for Mac is one such product. If you have an Intel-powered Mac, Parallels lets you run Windows and Unix-based operating systems at nearly native speeds. Depending on your Mac, Windows applications run at anywhere from 80 to 95 percent of their native speed—more than fast enough for all but the most demanding Windows user. (Try that, Virtual PC.) Unlike Apple’s Boot Camp, Parallels doesn’t force you to reboot or partition your hard drive. It’ll even let you run multiple operating systems simultaneously (as long as you have gobs of RAM). Sure, there are some drawbacks. Parallels Desktop can’t, for example, support full 3-D accelerated graphics, and some hardware peripherals won’t work properly with it. But if you need (or want) to use Windows on your Mac, Parallels Desktop is the easiest—and for most users, the best—solution available.
Find out more, here.