I’ve had an ongoing saga of trying Windows emulation on my MacBook with only failures to report. By far, the best result has been with Boot Camp, but that requires a restart of the machine.

I’m happy to report that after giving Parallels 4.0 a spin, it actually works! It suspends and resumes without errors. No eternal spinning beach balls requiring a machine restart. Fast loads. Decent, though in my opinion flawed, integration with the Mac Desktop. Not much of a processor hog.

I’m scared to say that I’d actually recommend it to someone looking to run some Windows only apps on their Macs who don’t want to keep rebooting into Boot Camp. It isn’t perfect, but it’s good to see they are improving things.