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Cleo 2011-10-10 01:58 PM

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?

Simon 2011-10-10 04:12 PM

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)


HTH

.

dunc 2011-10-10 08:24 PM

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

mOrrI 2011-10-17 09:49 AM

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 :D


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