I would start switching to Vmware cause it will be the best software on the Mac. With the new investment they will also have a much better relationship with Intel and therefore the virtualization tricks than Parallels.
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Goodbye Parallels. Intel invests $218M in Vmware
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Great news. I just switched to VMWare, and it's far better than Parallels in my opinion. Unity runs rings around coherence, and when I first minimised a window into the dock, I was sold! It also doesn't seem to slow the Mac down as much, and their customer support isn't out-sourced to a bunch of useless idiots.
Am I correct in believing that Unity extends window behaviours such as Expose transformation where coherence mode does not?
Sounds like a big blow to Parallels, although I have heard that Apple has given them a hand, anyway.
Either that or MS will stall development of the Mac version.
huh? maybe i'm missing something, but what does microsoft have to do with it?
Sorry, I was reading two threads at once and read it as MS pumping money into VMWare... but I still wouldn't put it past MS to find a way.
Sorry, I was reading two threads at once and read it as MS pumping money into VMWare... but I still wouldn't put it past MS to find a way.
whew! i thought i was having a blonde moment!
Intel is pretty buddy-buddy with Apple so this development should go a long way to helping VMWare along!
even though I spent 100 bones on the latter, but use only VMWare exclusivly now. I think VMWare is the only way to run Linux on a VM.
Not so fast on the gloom and doom. Do take a peek at who owns Parallels
Wow! Good catch!
Well, I guess maybe Parallels isn't in trouble!
Because all coherence does is make the Windows desktop transparent. When you use Exposé, the whole Windows desktop scales down as one window, whereas in Unity, each individual Windows window scales like a Mac OS window. Also, Unity adds drop shadows around each window, and allows them to be minimised to the dock.
VMware is the best there is
I use VMware in an enterprise data center environment with 700 virtual servers running on 80-ish physical servers. It is an amazing product and totally rock solid. We can move RUNNING vm's from physical to physical hardware without them skipping a beat. VMware builds for the Five 9's crowd and that quality will carry over into the Mac product.
VMware easily beats parallels in my book (I own both). It runs with less resources, uses less CPU, has more configuration options, supports Linux better, and Unity is better.
Parallels runs DirectX games faster and seems to support more.
$39.95 pre-order for Fusion is a steal.
I use VMware in an enterprise data center environment with 700 virtual servers running on 80-ish physical servers. It is an amazing product and totally rock solid. We can move RUNNING vm's from physical to physical hardware without them skipping a beat. VMware builds for the Five 9's crowd and that quality will carry over into the Mac product.
VMware easily beats parallels in my book (I own both). It runs with less resources, uses less CPU, has more configuration options, supports Linux better, and Unity is better.
Parallels runs DirectX games faster and seems to support more.
$39.95 pre-order for Fusion is a steal.
are you all using the VMware mac beta? I am on their site, and this is the only version that I see.