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Cyber Monday 2019: Get the 2020 Limited Edition Mac Bundle With Parallels Desktop, Banktivity, and More for $36
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I don't use my older version of Parallels very often, but was thinking of taking advantage of this deal, but your question caused me to dig a little deeper. So apparently the Standard version (which this is) is crippled to allow for using only 4 cores and 8GB of RAM.
I'm also worried about the terminology which suggests that the app might be suscription-only and become unusable after 1 year.
I’m with you, 100%. I wonder how many sales Parallels is losing due to ambiguous licensing terms. The artificial limits also kind of tick me off on a moral level.
VirtualBox will do just fine for me until either VMWare(Fusion) catches up or Parallels changes their business model.
Parallels Desktop Standard Edition is available as both subscription and perpetual. Everything other feature level or product they sell is subscription.
VirtualBox has similar licensing (per socket or per named user) that you must pay for if you're not a personal user/evaluating. It's actually in the standard two-part perpetual+annual support. That's how their parent, Oracle, and enterprise software in general works.
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I am curious what folks use Parallels for these days instead of the free VirtualBox.
Parallels is the subscription for one year - which I am not interested in. If it had been the Standalone, I would have jumped. Also, their "Specs" page says 'Only available to new users", which seems kind of weird.
No, the $79.99 version of Parallels is the standard version and is limited to 8GB. The Pro version allows up to 128GB.
https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/#compare
That is disappointing and should be more clear in the bundle listing that this will have to be renewed every year. The "only available to new users" is to prevent existing customers from buying this and stacking another year on to their subscription.
I am really surprised you like that ...., I downloaded the App half a year ago, should have instantly deleted it since it's so Windows like which I despise.
I didn't and tried it for 1 single time (Had a good reason), after using it I thought it wasn't up to what they promise, deleted it so I thought, only later on I realised a daemon was still running, my Mac got close to zero free space, there was a Folder I didn't recognise, the Developer had nothing about this Folder, couldn't find anything on their site.
IIRC it ate 80 GB of my disk.
Never again.
Bottom line is, "If it sounds too good to be true, it IS." I'm staying away from this "good deal".
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Uh huh. I used to buy these bundles back in the day and it was great. Now it's just another way to lure you into yet another subscription. SaaS killed a lot of the fun of owning a mac for me. I bet many of these are just subscriptions.
Exactly. This is just a ploy to suck you in. I really HATE the direction software applications has gone. I'd be interested in the Banktivity 7 ( I currently use no-longer supported 6), but people are saying the "code" doesn't work. This article is REAL close to *CLICKBAIT* in my opinion, thus, I'm staying away!
I've run into a weird one: Trying to activate Disk Drill and it won't let me type in a strange smattering of letters. I can type an "H" anywhere else on my Mac. But not in the activation window. Can't even copy and paste.
Weird.
Weird.
Update: I went back to the Stack Social website and looked at my order. Completely different code there. And it worked.
I bought it yesterday and I paid $23 when CMSAVE60 code was working now they removed it. I wonder if I can keep using Parallels without renewing the yearly subscription.
As much as I hate that Parallels is subscription based, I have a free license to VMware Fusion from work, and still paid for a sub for Parallels. I havent compared it to Virtualbox, but Parallels blew out Fusion in nearly every fashion of what I used it for --- straight MS office (outlook for mac is severely cripped). I cant recall anything Fusion does better, except that it didnt cost me anything.
I got caught by the yearly subscription thing in Parallels, thought I was buying a full license, only found out when I went to redeem my code. Pretty annoyed, I asked if there was any way to get a refund but they flat out told me that they pay the companies immediately and can't refund anything. I would get credit back but there's nothing worth buying in their store.
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I used Virtualbox for a while, If I moved my mouse from the VM to my Mac and back, the mouse would be unresponsive, and the cursor missing. When it did appear, virtualbox was incredibly slow compared to the Vmware Fusion I had tested.
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Bought this mainly for Parallels. Which I know is a subscription. I didn't expect a bunch of the others to be subscriptions as well. I'm all for subscriptions (I like to spread my costs out), but getting subscriptions for apps I don't even need/want, that's annoying.
Even worse, when redeeming these apps, you have to give your credit card info to each of the companies separately, so they can renew the subscription on you. Serious PITA. Think this will be the last bundle I ever buy.
NOTE: I immediately cancelled the Parallels subscription right after activating the license to avoid an automatic charge in a year. No worries. Went to cancel the TextExpander subscription for the same reason, and it states that if I cancel now, it will stop working now.
"After confirming your cancelation, your subscription will remain active until the end of your current subscription period (3-Dec-2019). After this date your subscription will end, and you will not be billed again."
Even worse, when redeeming these apps, you have to give your credit card info to each of the companies separately, so they can renew the subscription on you. Serious PITA. Think this will be the last bundle I ever buy.
NOTE: I immediately cancelled the Parallels subscription right after activating the license to avoid an automatic charge in a year. No worries. Went to cancel the TextExpander subscription for the same reason, and it states that if I cancel now, it will stop working now.
"After confirming your cancelation, your subscription will remain active until the end of your current subscription period (3-Dec-2019). After this date your subscription will end, and you will not be billed again."
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Yeah, I am another annoyed customer who bought this, and then realised Parallels is only a 1 year subscription. And the same goes for a bunch of the other products.
No refund possible.
STAY AWAY PEOPLE.
MacRumors, you also get your fair share of my annoyance for failing to make it clear in your article that for a bunch of these products, you are getting a one year subscription (you are not getting THE PRODUCT). This really should have been clearer.
I'm really annoyed with myself for falling for this, I will not be buying one of these bundles again without checking the small print *extremely* carefully.
No refund possible.
STAY AWAY PEOPLE.
MacRumors, you also get your fair share of my annoyance for failing to make it clear in your article that for a bunch of these products, you are getting a one year subscription (you are not getting THE PRODUCT). This really should have been clearer.
I'm really annoyed with myself for falling for this, I will not be buying one of these bundles again without checking the small print *extremely* carefully.
It’s disappointing to have all of my suspicions confirmed, but hardly surprising. I think the time of the ‘bundle’ is at an end. It’s yet another thing that SaaS has killed. There’s nothing more user-hostile than rented software. There are *maybe* three or four exceptions, but for the most part, this is just a money grab.
I got tricked by the subscription scam as well @MacRumours @WildCowboy
you gotta give us more warning
you gotta give us more warning