To make matters worse, I have one Thunderbolt monitor, I have one monitor connected via a USB-to-HDMI connection, and I have one monitor connected via DisplayPort-to-DVI that's then been rotated 90-degrees. While Coherence generally works fine for users with one monitor, the boards are chock full of stories of people with a second monitor having problems - and I have four monitors. It's doing some serious magic to let those environments coexist as if they were one system when they're completely different environments. Parallels gets a little fussy in Coherence mode. I use applications and resources from both Mac and Windows and I wanted to be able to move between them quickly and easily. Rather than, for example, running on a Windows 8.1 desktop, you can run on the Mac desktop and some windows can be for Mac applications and some for Windows applications.Īs the video above demonstrates, this is what I needed. Coherence mode allows application windows to coexist side by side. Key to this is something Parallels calls Coherence mode.
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