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| VMware Fusion (Mac) | 
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| From: Smith Micro Software
Category: Software
List Price: £49.95
Buy New: £44.46
You Save: £5.49 (11%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 919
Language: English (Original Language)
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.4
UPC: 717103140402
EAN: 0717103140402
ASIN: B000UNRKB4
Release Date: September 21, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Best VM software for desktops that I have ever used. December 2, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used VMWare Workstation and Virtual PC in the PC platform and now I'm using VMWare Fusion on the Mac. This software is simply put very good.
It installs a virtual machine in very little time with almost no interaction from the user. The machines run fast and the Unity feature is great, allowing you to run the Windows apps out of the Windows desktop in the Finder. You can see the apps in the doc and launch apps from the VMWare menus.
Suspending and resuming VMs is also fast and it doesn't use too many resources on the host machine, allowing you to run some pretty heavy applications in the Mac while running the VM as well.
I haven't tested the 3D features as I don't play games and don't do much 3D on Windows, so I can vouch for them, but for what I need VMWare Fusion is perfect.
A quality product even for non specialists November 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My first use of virtualisation and it all works much more simply than I expected. Have loaded OpenBSD4.1, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and WindowsXP; all without hitch. It seems to have a particularly slick way of installing Windows (XP in particular) that is completely pain free.
I tend to have the user interface entirely in one OS or another and switch entirely - this saves me confusion and frustration as a user pressing the wrong key combinations. You can also have a window from say XP on your OSX desktop which works fine but doesn't do much for me.
It benefits from lots of RAM which is cheap anyway. If you intend to connect to your virtual machine from elsewhere on the LAN then you need to know IPv4 moderately well (I added a route setting on my ADSL router).
This price is low enough to use virtual machines for occasional use or experiments.
 Not as nice as Parallels to use. Feels like a PC product! October 30, 2007
20 out of 27 found this review helpful
I have used Parallels for quite a while and thought i'd give Fusion a try as i'd read about it in all the Mac mags. Essentially, its a good copy of Parallels as a lot of the features are similar - they have 'Unity' where Parallels has 'Coherence' and a lot of the other Parallels features are replicated.
Fusion has one big feature that Parallels doesnt, it supports multi-core, so benchmark tests showed it to be a lot faster. I kind of bought it on that premise as ive started to do a lot of stuff on the Windows side and wanted the extra power. I found, however, this to be a bit of hype. I didnt see any huge improvement over Parallels to be honest, though i only have a Macbook Pro and not a Mac Pro or anything uber fast. In basic app use, it was a bit faster, but i cant help thinking its hype, it wasnt as quick as benchmarks would dictate.
As for the rest of the program, to be honest, i'll stick with Parallels. While Fusion is a good enough copy/replica, i cant help thinking its a bad port of one of their PC products as it doesnt seem very user friendly for a Mac user. The window is cluttered with large icons and has a huge task bar at the top that i cant see how to get rid of. Parallels, like most Mac programs has a clean window with hide-able menus. I'm also aware that this is VMWare's first foray into the Mac market, while Parallels has been on the market for ages and seems to be very Mac focused as a company. Given that the features of the program are basically the same, i'd choose Parallels over Fusion every time.
Does what Parallels only promises October 10, 2007
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
As a long time Parallels user I was both disappointed in Parallels and not expecting much more from Fusion. The Parallels promise, of course, was "run both Windows and Mac at the same time!" The reality, as we all now know, is that while Parallels is worlds better than Bootcamp for ease of use and ready access to Windows, it slows down your Mac so much that nothing else runs. So you're still left with a choice: Windows or Mac, but not both. Fusion, though, let's me have my cake and eat it too. I can easily run two or three Windows programs side by side with my usual Mac programs and everything runs at full speed. What a difference! This is what I've been waiting for!! That said, Fusion is not perfect. It definitely lacks features that Parallels has (like multiple saved state versions), though it also has a couple of features that Parallels should copy (like multi-cpu support). The bottom line for me is simple: I used to love Parallels, but Fusion was a no-brainer upgrade as soon as I saw how much faster it was. I even found a converter to move my Parallels file into Fusion, which really made the switch painless.
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