OK, enough bellyaching. Now for a short analysis. Parallels 9 feels more complete than 8, more polished. It's not perfect, but it is better. Windows 7 runs very nicely, perhaps a shadow better than under Parallels 8. At any rate it is very useable. The automated Ubuntu install has been bumped from version 12.04 to 13.04 and is now very smooth, which is very nice given the extra features that 13.04 brings to the table. However, existing 13.04 installs not made under the automated function in 9 feel very slow indeed, to the point of being unusable. Deepin, another distro I use, is still completely unusable. A pity as it is very attractive, but there you go. Haiku, the successor to BeOS, is still dead in the water and will not boot, let alone install. Another pity. Salix, the final install I use, is smooth and responsive, but then again it was pretty good under version 8. Small performance bump I guess, but welcome all the same. Hope that little insight helps some people out there! Rich::
