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    I got both fusion and parallels.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by corz422, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. corz422

    corz422 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Due to a friend of mine's position I was able to obtain vmare fusion 1.1 and parallels 5582. I'm having some problems deciding which to use as I have them both installed but I'm new to all of this. Any suggestions on what I should do or try out?
     
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    What's Parallels 5582?

    Anyways, both have their advantages...the Windows on a Mac Guide (sticky on this forum, as well as linked on my sig) details it a bit. Personally, I find VMware Fusion to be better, as well as cheaper (it has ongoing rebates).
     
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    5582 is just the code for the latest version, which has enhanced leopard compatiblity.
     
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    i read the sticky already and it doesn't really answer my question which is which is more user friendly for day to day use the sticky more regards advanced features like 64 bit smp directx support and so forth...and as I statedi already have both installed on the comp atm
     
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    Sorry if this doesn't sound extremely helpful but if you have enough hard disk space install Windows on both VM and Paralles and push both of them and see which offers what you like. I actually have Fusion on my iMac but I like the UI better in Fusion as I don't like the UI in Parallels.
    It really doesn't matter if you are just using it to run a few Windows apps.
     
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    actually i'm running both of them off my boot camp partition...however i'm new to osx in general so i'm a total nub...got my first mac/mbp a month ago
     
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    I like bootcamp.

    [Moderator Edit: Please don't put a message about the MBP getting better GPUs everywhere. Thanks]
     
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    unless they make mobile gpus alot cooler doubt they can fit something better into mbp..it's alrdy burning hot while i game
     
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    I'd say VMware Fusion then...it seems to be good as well as allows for stuff like support for customizing how to use your multi-cores.
     
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    well i'll give fusion a further look, i think the interface is better so far...as of day 1
     
    corz422, Dec 13, 2007
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    Speaking as someone who deals with VMware's Enterprise products every day, I'm going to guess that Fusion will continually get better as time goes by.
     
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