You know a company has had an influence on Apple when Apple start selling their product through the website. Parallels is one such product, and they announced yesterday that Parallels Desktop Hits Apple Store.

Parallels has been hitting Apple's Boot Camp on the nose as a solution for those people who need or want to run an alternative OS on their Intel based Apple Macs. They both have benefits and opposing pitfalls. Boot Camp provides compatibility and performance but requires a reboot between switches. Parallels enables you to run both simultaneously, and the performance is great for everything but graphics-intensive environments.