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Old 2011-10-10, 01:58 PM   #1
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Question VMwareFusion or Parallels or something else?

My partner works for an accounting firm and needs to run a few windows programs on her Mac without having to reboot.

In the past I've used Parallels but haven't upgraded it to run under Snow Leopard since I never used it.

Seems VMwareFusion is what is popular these days for running Windows on a Mac but thought I'd ask what others are using these days?
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Old 2011-10-10, 04:12 PM   #2
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I'm interested in the answer but I can't offer any advice since I've been running Windows on a PC notebook when I need it.

There are lots of reviews comparing the two, but most are from 2009-2010.
Here's the only one I saw from 2011 in case you haven't seen it yet...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews...4-reviewed.ars

(it picks Parallels as the clear winner)


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Old 2011-10-10, 08:24 PM   #3
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I've never used my as a PC - but I did read a good review of VirtualBox in a magazine - but I never got futher than downloading it
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Old 2011-10-17, 09:49 AM   #4
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VirtualBox is quite nice...
Vmware is a bit heavy...

But it all depends on the machine you are using to run the Virtual Machines...

Apart from that, visualization is a must now a days
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