Yet another future option for OS X gaming

Parallels announced this week that it is working on a new version of Parallels Desktop for Macs that will allow the virtualized guest operating system to use 3D acceleration hardware in real time. The company said that while it’s not available yet, it plans to introduce 3D acceleration so that those who want to run 3D applications in a virtualized Windows XP do not have to dual boot their Intel-Macs to do so. Best of all, Parallels said that 3D acceleration will be “fast.”

With TransGamings Cider on the horizon, it’s going to be a hard sell here. Although, both products use different schemes to get things done, so one is bound to be much more realible, and faster than the other.