Parallels Client App Reviews

I have used the 2X app for my business for the last 2 years, and must say it has been quite good and stable. I had the occasional issues, but most of those were related to my bad wireless connectivity. With this recent update I am a bit worried about 2X. I Recently updated this app on my non-Retina display Macbook Pro, I had read the other review about it not causing issues but decided anyways. To my relief I did not encounter the issues that other reported. Thinking that all was good I went ahead and updated my newer Macbook Pro WITH Retina display and everything has slowed to a glacial crawl. I’m not sure what happened in this version of the 2X app, but you need to fix it ASAP as I now have a completely unusable Macbook Pro Retina. If you have a Mac with a Retina display DO NOT UPDATE, it will break your ability to use the app. Such an obvious flaw should have been picked up by this company before allowing us to get it.

I’m happy to report that the new version of 2X client is working great. The issues noted with the last version seem to have been corrected.

I downloaded this thinking it could solve issues with RDP and multiple monitors. Despite what I had read from others, it did not solve this issue for me. The remote screen image was mis-aligned (only spanned one monitor) and could not be moved, which prevented me from even accessing the start menu in Windows 7. Also, how hard can it be to allow the app to import connection files from Microsoft RDP? This was a non-starter for me. Glad I did not have to pay anything for this app...

Try as I might, I could not get Microsoft Remote Desktop to work with my employer’s VPN. This remote desktop program isn’t fancy, but it works and it’s pretty seamless as long as I have a good connection.

I have only used this program for a little bit today, but it seems much, much faster than the Microsoft RDP client. I usually just remote into my desktop in my house and even that is slow using the Microsoft client. I didn’t think it would make a difference but 2X RDP definitely is much faster. It feels almost like I was sitting in front of the host computer now.

The application connects to the server (Oracle Virtual Box on Ubuntu), shows the screen, allows mouse interaction. But as soon as I press any key on the keyboard, I get "RDP session was disconnected".

Suffers from a variety of minor annoyances—covering the entirety of a desktop without using OS X’s full screen mode, grabbing back focus when switching desktops, auto-opening recent/random sessions upon app launch without being told to, non-Retina icons—but it’s a working, decently fast RDP app. Heavy users will definitely want to consider trading up to a more refined (and expensive) app; for everyone else, remind yourself how much you paid for it, adjust your expectations accordingly, and 2X RDP will meet them.

I loved this until the most recent update. Now it wont allow me to print. I tried several workarounds. None of them worked :(

The previous version of Parallels worked like a charm. I updated it to this new one and it doesnt work any more. What happened? ***I would like to edit this review to reflect that after going back to my desktop at work, it turns out that it was offline. I came home and tried it again and it worked just like before. This is the only one that worked for my mac to pc remote in our institution. Jump, Microsoft RDP, Lock down didn’t****

The application itself is fine, works like the previous version, howeve printing locally (USB) does not work.. it errors out.. This is a MAJOR FLAW.

After update, I have since lost ability to print. Goes to Queue and says that there is an PRINTING ERROR.

Used to work well, but after upgradeing it just stopped working. When it worked it was much better than the Microsoft client and far more stable than CoRD.