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| From: Smith Micro Software
Category: Software
List Price: £49.95
Buy New: £40.98
You Save: £8.97 (18%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 78
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.4
UPC: 717103140402
EAN: 0717103140402
ASIN: B000UNRKB4
Release Date: September 21, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 It works pretty well within limits April 19, 2008
I tried Parallels and had no end of hassle with it. VMFusion seems alot more stable as most of the other reviewers have said. There are a couple of niggles though. I wouldn't recommend using your Bootcamp partition as a virtual machine as, on my mac it caused a few hangs. It works fine though if you create a separate Virtual machine to run within OSX and keep Bootcamp for when you need to run Windows natively. Also, you need to be careful when connecting external USB drives to a VM as they can become inaccessible to OSX until you disconnect from Windows. Apart from that it seems to work fine! Speed is good under XP even when working with graphics rich apps like Fireworks et al.
For 50 it is a good buy. Recommended!
Brilliant product - Was the catalyst to get me to change to a Mac January 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
VMWare is 100% reliable and everything I could ever want.
Let me tell you about my application.
I'm a website developer programming on Microsoft SQL databases and ASP for a living. Unfortunately I need to be able to work from time to time on my laptop so if I wanted to go the way of the Mac, I needed a way to develop and test code on it.
I've managed to instal windows server, SQL server and Visual Studio onto a VMWare image with no problem at all. I can code in windows, host the asp on IIS in windows server and heres the cool bit, I can actually view the page using safari or firefox on the mac (by browsing to the IP address of the virtual machine).
I've also go linux images loaded too so VMWare still has all it's normal features for under 50.
6 star product - I'm very impressed
Best VM software for desktops that I have ever used. December 2, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have used VMWare Workstation and Virtual PC in the PC platform and now I'm using VMWare Fusion on the Mac. This software is simply put very good.
It installs a virtual machine in very little time with almost no interaction from the user. The machines run fast and the Unity feature is great, allowing you to run the Windows apps out of the Windows desktop in the Finder. You can see the apps in the doc and launch apps from the VMWare menus.
Suspending and resuming VMs is also fast and it doesn't use too many resources on the host machine, allowing you to run some pretty heavy applications in the Mac while running the VM as well.
I haven't tested the 3D features as I don't play games and don't do much 3D on Windows, so I can vouch for them, but for what I need VMWare Fusion is perfect.
A quality product even for non specialists November 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My first use of virtualisation and it all works much more simply than I expected. Have loaded OpenBSD4.1, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and WindowsXP; all without hitch. It seems to have a particularly slick way of installing Windows (XP in particular) that is completely pain free.
I tend to have the user interface entirely in one OS or another and switch entirely - this saves me confusion and frustration as a user pressing the wrong key combinations. You can also have a window from say XP on your OSX desktop which works fine but doesn't do much for me.
It benefits from lots of RAM which is cheap anyway. If you intend to connect to your virtual machine from elsewhere on the LAN then you need to know IPv4 moderately well (I added a route setting on my ADSL router).
This price is low enough to use virtual machines for occasional use or experiments.
 Not as nice as Parallels to use. Feels like a PC product! October 30, 2007
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have used Parallels for quite a while and thought i'd give Fusion a try as i'd read about it in all the Mac mags. Essentially, its a good copy of Parallels as a lot of the features are similar - they have 'Unity' where Parallels has 'Coherence' and a lot of the other Parallels features are replicated.
Fusion has one big feature that Parallels doesnt, it supports multi-core, so benchmark tests showed it to be a lot faster. I kind of bought it on that premise as ive started to do a lot of stuff on the Windows side and wanted the extra power. I found, however, this to be a bit of hype. I didnt see any huge improvement over Parallels to be honest, though i only have a Macbook Pro and not a Mac Pro or anything uber fast. In basic app use, it was a bit faster, but i cant help thinking its hype, it wasnt as quick as benchmarks would dictate.
As for the rest of the program, to be honest, i'll stick with Parallels. While Fusion is a good enough copy/replica, i cant help thinking its a bad port of one of their PC products as it doesnt seem very user friendly for a Mac user. The window is cluttered with large icons and has a huge task bar at the top that i cant see how to get rid of. Parallels, like most Mac programs has a clean window with hide-able menus. I'm also aware that this is VMWare's first foray into the Mac market, while Parallels has been on the market for ages and seems to be very Mac focused as a company. Given that the features of the program are basically the same, i'd choose Parallels over Fusion every time.
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