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- satcomer, on 11/11/2008, -2/+21Yea but the Fusion upgrade the 2.0 was free.
- colincornaby, on 11/11/2008, -1/+11VMWare has treated me good, with free upgrades, and a solid product from launch. I'll see what they have up their sleeves for 3.0. They need to get OpenGL acceleration though. No accelerated window managers under Linux virtual machines is lame.
- trodemaster, on 11/11/2008, -2/+10Awesome another excellent press release from Parallels! Now if their software was only that good. I'm hard pressed to find any of these improvements that haven't been included with Fusion 2 for a while now. Break out your wallet for another parallels .0 release that surely will be followed by hundreds of beta fix builds..
- rauz, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Fusion definitely. Google for the comparisons and you'll know it's better in most every way.
- bogdon6, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6I'm very disappointed with Parallels. I finally just went the Bootcamp route instead of dealing with Parallels because it is so slow.
- peterinjapan, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5I love Fusion and jumped ship from Parallels. It just works so smoothly, very nearly perfect. I use the Boot Camp option, booting from my Boot Camp install virtually when I need to do something quick, which lets me have one PC install on the laptop to mess with, much less work.
- Zippo, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4So, digg users, which do you prefer? Parallels or Fusion?
- chrisbarr, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4I've been using the beta, so I downloaded the full version yesterday and realized it's a paid upgrade! Now Since I can't convert my VM's back to 3.0, I either have to re-install Parallels 3 and Windows or shell our $40 for the upgrade.
- slappy321, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Hmm.... Fusion 2.0 for free or Parallels 4.0 for $40. Tough choice.
- rauz, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Try VMWare Fusion instead. It runs fast AND allows you to use your Bootcamp partition, giving you the best of both worlds (virtualization and Bootcamp)...however lousy that world might be :)
- bbbreak, on 11/12/2008, -2/+5http://digg.com/apple/Parallels_Desktop_4_0_gets_a ...
This is a double post of someone elses. Don't steal. ;x - dandonia, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2Not a bad question really, what games can play through parallels? Civ 4?
Oh wait you were making that stupid Crysis joke that some how applies to everything including a pyrimid found in Egypt. - e2superman, on 11/12/2008, -2/+42x the number of re-posts too. See six hours ago...
- dmurphy, on 11/13/2008, -0/+2I love watching these two companies push each other. Both products have gotten way better since they launched.
- no2gates, on 11/12/2008, -2/+4Virtual Box
- pmccarron, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I am a bit upset with Parallels. I have used Parallels for a long time and initially the product was very good and the support was excellent. Over time both started to suffer. I still primarily use Parallels, but also use VMWare for a customer and VirtualBox on my servers. I have been waiting for Parallels to stickt o their promise to get the Tools to work with the latest Xorg servers - specifically for Ubuntu. They still have not delivered on that promise and now I have to pay to upgrade and I am guessing it is still not working. The only problem I have had with WMWare is it's extremely slow suspend time. VirtualBox is great except the snapshots are movable/portable across machines.
- edebolt, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I mostly use it for financial charts etc and the Parallels 4.0 is definitely quicker but the nicest benefit is a lot less memory demand versus 3.0
- cubs2234, on 11/12/2008, -1/+2i'm doing it now, it works fine
- tacojohn48, on 11/12/2008, -1/+2anyone know if this can run the pre-beta windows 7? I really want to give it a try.
- SuperJason, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1The dynamic resource allocation sounds interesting. Anyone know how it works? If it dynamically allocated memory, that would be amazing.
- dmbfan41, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1***** that i just bought old version like 2 weeks ago. pay for upgrades? *****
- iamichi, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1I've just upgraded and it was a bit of a battle. There are quite a few people on Parallels' forums having problems. If I'd known I'd of waited for the next minor release before upgrading.
- wgpubs, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1I just dumped Parallels for Fusion for one simple reason: Networking!
Whereas Parallels makes you jump through hoops to get networking working right ... out of the box VM Ware just works. That's right, with zero configuration I'm able to go between my wireless at home to my company's Windows network at work via ethernet seamlessly. Plus, Fusion has a sweet import utility for moving Parallels VMs into Fusion and it worked flawlessly.
This is an easy call ... VMWare for the win. - arjie, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1They do: http://www.parallels.com/support/desktop/licensing ...
Why I thought this was worth mentioning is that if their Direct X performance is improved, it's a good thing for Wine. Or it means that Wine is getting much better. - paradexes, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Parallels is full of alot of marketing fluff. They have broken promises and software. All I have seen is people blowing smoke about how great it is, then on the other hand hearing how many people are having kernel panics and all sorts of other disasters with Parallels. Granted Fusion is not perfect, but it is a hell of alot more stable and as a company VMware has more experience since they have been at this for more than 10 years now.
- arjie, on 11/12/2008, -2/+3I remember they used some Wine libraries to get DirectX 9 support in the beginning. Do they still?
If they do, isn't that just awesome? - vashmyvindows, on 11/12/2008, -1/+1Parallels (2 and 3) were causing kernel panics for me, and they crashed a couple times a week. They were particularly bad crashes, often crashing MacOS itself. Ultimately it crashed while I was patching, which rendered my Windows partition un-bootable.
Fusion has crashed a couple times for me, but nothing so nasty as a kernel panic (i.e. it never locks up MacOS) and it only happens when starting up Vista.
For reference, there's virtually nothing installed on my Windows partition and it's well maintained, so the apps really are at fault here, not I. Parallels was better at running 3d apps, admittedly, but I'm gladly trading that capability in. - xdoute, on 11/12/2008, -2/+2Parallels for sure. It is better in almost every way than every other virtualization product.
- clockdist, on 11/12/2008, -2/+2Parallels FTW
- gr8whitesavage, on 11/12/2008, -2/+2Does counter-strike or the Steam platform work?
- fujimonster, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0steam/tf2 works just great if you use the crossover product on the mac and no need to run it under a vm!
- MrChunks, on 11/12/2008, -0/+0Grrr. I was going to upgrade to Parallels 4 and have been Parallels user since version 1. The $39 upgrade apparently converts to £33 and for some reason, they seem to think that VAT in the UK is 19%. I think I might give this upgrade a miss.
- brendaburns, on 02/21/2009, -0/+0Interesting story. Very well written I must say.
Frank
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Get-Rid-of-a-Yeas ... - paradexes, on 11/12/2008, -1/+1VMware does it better :P
- MrChunks, on 11/12/2008, -1/+0Ah well. Buriers, you disagree with me. How about you say why?
- Chirp08, on 11/12/2008, -4/+3Considering gaming is off the table there is no reason to upgrade. Parallels "performs" fine with the applications you would run in a virtual environment, if you are having performance issues you are trying to do something that should be done via bootcamp.
- motleyorc, on 11/12/2008, -1/+0I just installed and ran NOLF2 and it ran flawlessly. Extremely fast too. I thought Parallels 3 was buggy (and laggy) as hell. I am very happy with this upgrade.
- petek, on 11/12/2008, -2/+1Double post
- InfernoX, on 11/12/2008, -5/+1It's a Mac, don't even bother asking.
- MrChunks, on 11/12/2008, -5/+0Maybe, but so was the Parallels upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0.
2.0 -> 3.0 upgrade I had to pay for, if I remember rightly. I don't think this is unreasonable. - jmandawg, on 11/12/2008, -6/+1Can it run Crysis?
- zendez1, on 11/11/2008, -14/+6Wow, that's pretty epic! Parallels is great.
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