I was spending the day catching up on some reading while watching the University of South Carolina get trounced in football and came across a few reviews of VMware Fusion. I wasn’t surprised to see the great reviews since VMware Fusion rocks. I was a little taken by some of the comments in the reviews.
In the review from Ars Technica, hux posted this comment about Parallels:
…Parallels 4 makes me feel like I could be just a few mouse clicks away from it shitting the bed, and that’s just bad news.
Dave Girard (the Ars reviewer) wrote back with similar remarks:
…Well put – that’s exactly how I felt using it. The best part of finishing the review was not having to use it anymore…
That pretty much sums up every experience I’ve had with every version of Parallels. I’m sure Parallels will get the hang of writing good software that doesn’t kill a Mac one of these days.
For another look you can refer to this review from MacWorld where VMware Fusion got 4.5 Mice to Parallels 3.5 Mice. The same reviewer (Rob Griffiths) did an excellent write-up on choosing the best Mac virtualization platform. He goes through a lot when comparing VMware Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox. In the end VMware Fusion wins.
If you’re interested in the best Mac virtualization platform around then use the link to the right to get it for a great discount.
UPDATE (1-4-2009): The VMware Fusion marketing team just passed on this nice little one pager for those keeping score of VMware Fusion’s great reviews. Enjoy!
January 1st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
That description of Parallels made me laugh out loud — that's exactly how I always felt as well.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:37 am
[...] 2, 2009 2008 VMware Fusion Reviews: [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Thanks for the comments and the pointer to the discount – swung it for me! will use in our busienss, Appleby Mall Chartered Accountants in Wolverhampton UK.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Not only a great product, but when I ordered my copy, there was a computer glitch, and I wasn't sure if the order had gone through. I called the company, at 9am east coast time (6am California time, where they are), thinking no one would be there. Someone actually picked up the phone! He checked my order, confirmed it had gone through, sent me an email with my product key, and when I didn't get the email in a minute or so, also gave me the key over the phone. The whole time the rep was pleasant, helpful and entirely professional. It was a great experience. Huge props to vmware and desktop services rep Robert Banks!
December 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Do NOT try and upgrade VMF v2 to v3 in windows XP unless you want to lose everything. Thank f*** for a backup
December 4th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Do NOT try and upgrade VMF v2 to v3 in windows XP unless you want to lose everything. Thank f*** for a backup