I get that dialog box a lot, too. They keep saying they are going to make
it more user friendly in the next update. Already its better in that you
don't have to complete a word in order to pull up information. And thank god
they stopped making you type out Brassolaeliocattleya for Blc.

K

"David Edgley" wrote in message
om...
Thank you. By the end of the month, I will have a new MacBook Pro with
4GB of memory. I plan to give Parallels all the memory it wants. One of
my co-workers has Parallels and likes to use it in coherent mode. I hope
my applications cooperate. Based on my use of AQ Plus on a PC running XP
Pro, I would not blame you for any "twitchiness" you encounter while using
it. That program is definately a work in progress. My biggest pet peeve
so far (except for the dialog boxes saying it can't find a file it wants)
is the way the back button works. Silly me - I thought back meant go back
to where you were - not start over!

Anyway, rant off and thanks for sharing your experiences.

David

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Yes I do.

Sometimes its a bit twitchy. For example today at a show AQ Plus loaded
wrong. I had to close it and reload (which only took a matter of seconds
to accomplish) but in the meantime I was the only judge at the table
unable to pull up awards on Cym tracyanum on my neeto freeto macbook. I
felt like an idiot.

Now that's probably user error. I sling the computer around, carrying
from one place to another and I'm not really gentle with it. But
occasionally these errors happen at home, too. I have to leave a program
and restart it in order to get it to function properly. Having said that,
from what I understand Parallels is more stable than the one that comes
with OS X Leopard, and it has the capability to share programs from XP to
OS X, so IMHO its worth the $90.

I've used the old OS X Tiger and the new Leopard. (Sorry I don't know the
version #s.) and I use XP Pro on the microsoft side

Sometimes when I open XP the computer says the screen resolution isn't
optimal for viewing, and I have to change it. (When I look at the
monitor settings they are at 1200x 800 - which is the max the Mac Book
will allow)

Parallels comes with Kaspersky anti-virus software which scans the
harddrive on startup. I finally shut that feature down becasue I don't
surf the web while on the microsoft side of the harddrive, and a virus
can't cross the partition - or not usually from what I understand. That
scan would slow the computer down a bit.

I've had no troubles with Orchid Wiz. I've had troubles using a memory
stick to transfer data when updating the AOS Pacific Central web page and
the California Sierra Nevada web page to my laptop. Parallels asks
whether you want the device to run in Windows or Apple, so there's a step
I'm not used to.

Other than these user errors Parallels works fine and I'm happy with it.

K Barrett

"David Edgley" wrote in message
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All,

Do any of you have personal experience running AQ Plus 3.0, Wildcatt, or
OrchidWiz on a Mac using Parallels? Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5?

David