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!
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