Is this site reliable?
https://stacksocial.com/sales/the-istack-mac-bundle
Parallel 7 for 50 dollars Good deal?
Here's my experience. I bought a MacUpdate bundle early 2011 that came with Parallels 6 and some other apps. I bought it strictly for Parallels.
Parallels 7 came out about 5 months later. I paid the $50 to upgrade it because it was worth it. (Since it brought enhancements and Lion Fullscreen support.)
Parallels 8 is probably going to come out later this year too. I will pay $50 to upgrade that too because I'm a whore and like my software to be fresh and new.
They're on a mostly yearly upgrade cycle now. But do not quote me on that because it's not set in stone. Just be wary that these bundles will not always have software that's going to stay at that version for a while. And most of them have paid upgrades.
For instance, in the same bundle, I got Mac DVD Ripper Pro 2.x. It is great. It works great. But a few months later, 3.0 came out. But didn't have any features worth the upgrade price, but, and now I'm just going to rant about how stupid the company that made the program is, when the upgrade to 3.0 came out, the app UPDATED ITSELF TO 3.0 WITHOUT ASKING and when I launched it, it said "Oops! Now you have to pay, sucker!" I had to DOWNGRADE to 2.x and lose all the point updates that had come out since the bundle was released. Such a fucking bullshit move. You NEVER EVER update your program across whole version upgrades. ESPECIALLY when it's a paid update. That is a no-no. But this company did it. Now I don't ever trust them. What if Parallels had done that and made me pay the $50 instead of simply telling me that "hey, a new version is out! If you are interested, go to the website and buy it!"
But I digress.
I'll say another thing about those bundles. They're mostly crap. You usually only get one or two apps you actually end up using. Mine came with 90% crap, but was worth it for the 1Password and Parallels keys. I also use Hands Off! (Which comes in this bundle here) but am getting to the point I don't even know why I keep it on.
Disk Drill is an overpriced program with functionality you could get from a good external HDD and a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner or a good online backup system.
Paint Supreme looks like a PhotoShop clone that is probably underpowered compared to even Pixelmator.
The rest all look like useless shovelware. At least Hands Off! is newer than the one I have, but that's only for people who want to monitor in and outgoing network traffic. It gets annoying with apps like Chrome's updaters who check the internet all the time and put themselves in randomly named folders every damn time and make Hands Off! think they're new programs.
But $20 off Parallels is pretty good.. for now. I'd wait to see if version 8 comes out and pay full price unless you really want some of the other apps in that bundle.