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From:Smith Micro Software Inc.
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7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 One Sweet Product., 2007-10-29
Having tried the other Windows-on-my-Mac options, Fusion simply rocks. Unity - which let's you treat each windows "window" like any other mac app (sits in your dock, move around like other mac apps, etc) is great.
Only downfall - seems that there are some networking bugs to workout still. I'm running Windows XP Pro on my mine, and there are definitely some bugs when trying to connect to your local network vs. wan connections. In my case, in bridged mode I connect to the internet fine but not the local network.... in NAT I connect to the local network and not the internet. Argh!
When all is said and done, though, this is a slick program that really expands the Mac platform in a very natural way.
109 of 114 customers found the following review helpful:
 MUCH better than Parallels, 2007-10-27
Usage: I'm a web developer and graphic designer. My workflow involves using a number of tools that are specific to Windows and others that are specific to the Mac. I also use virtual machines for remotely controlling computers and supporting asp and [...] websites.
Experience: I'm an owner of Parallels 2 and, as released, upgraded to Parallels 3. I was also involved in the Beta testing of VMWare Fusion. I have to acknowledge that the Beta versions of Fusion were not stable, however the release version was a tremendous step up from the Beta and significantly faster than Parallels. Parallels is fine if all you're running it for is IE6/7 browser support for IE specific website (i.e. quickbooks online). If you own Parallels and use it sparingly switching to Fusion is a waste of money. If you use audio, video, and graphic editing programs in your virtual machines you WILL notice huge performance gains running Fusion over parallels. There are numerous *free* appliances available from VMWare you can download, which work immediately and seamlessly with Fusion. Very nice.
Summmary/Recommendation: If you're in the market for a Virtual Machine application VMWare Fusion is my recommendation. If you already own Parallels and use it sparingly there's no need to switch. If you use Parallels with processor intensive programs I recommend switching to Fusion as it is much faster.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
So easy, even I could do it, 2007-10-24
Pretty easy to install, and I'm not one who reads a lot of directions. Downloaded VMWare's utility to move contents of an existing PC over to the Mac. It took a while to run on my old, crappy laptop, but worked perfectly. Installed the Boot Camp drivers, and I'm off to the races. My boss was pretty floored when I jumped from a Keynote presentation in OS X to a Visio file running on XP. Highly recommended.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Best of both worlds, 2007-10-23
I've been using Fusion for about 3 weeks now. I am a designer that needs to work on a Mac and PC, so this product has come in handy. I am not a network professional (but know enough to really screw things up) and I didn't run into any issues installing this product. Fusion creates a nice little PC environment on your Mac, BUT Fusion is not going to run like the latest and greatest PC. The convenience of not having to switch physical macines as well as run Office 2007 and IIS is great. If you are on a Mac(intel based) and need to work in Windows some of the time, this is a great alternative to buying a PC.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Multiple computers in one !, 2007-10-20
Now that Macintosh and PC's share the same underlying hardware architecture, you got one of the best computer platforms to run multiple operating systems. I currently have Win XP HE, Linux Red Had 3 64, and Win XP 64 set up as virtual machines. I spend most of my time on OSX, but with VMware, I can load most any OS and run some of my proprietary PC based work programs. I also find that multi-tasking is smoother when OSX is in control than it is on a Windows based PC. I can load up what normally is a computer intensive task running under Win XP in the VMware and carry on doing other things on the Mac or another VM session. OSX purrs along and the computer remains responsive. At work on a similarly equipped Core 2 Duo PC it boggs down and grinds away.
If you need to run multiple operating systems, VMware Fusion works great and with the unity mode, you hardly know the difference.
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