Re: [sussex_mug] Vmware fusion or Parallels?

[Graham Street]

Just spotted (via a promo email) that Parallels is 'Deal of the Week' at Amazon and is £29.97 (54% off). Don't know how that compares to buying direct or from elsewhere. ... Graham on 07/04/2011 16:06 Graham Street sent the following: Never tried VMF. I run Parallels on both a Mac Pro (7Gb) and MacBookPro (2Gb). Been through a few versions and I'm now on version 6, the latest. Have no issues with it and it works fine for me. On the MBP, its a bit slow but that's lack of memory and the MBP is the original slowest spec and can't be upgraded. On the Mac Pro, I run Parallels at the same time as everything else and with both WinXP and W7 windows open for software testing. Graham on 07/04/2011 15:57 Paul Howard sent the following: With Virtualbox being pretty much useless right now on the new macbook pros [1] I find myself in need of paid for virtualisation. Is there any consensus on which of the two is better?  Will be using it mainly for a Windows VM (just for testing software) and running a couple of Linux machines. I used Parallels a few years ago and it seemed pretty decent but have used neither of the mac based products for ages. Not really bothered about coherence mode or any of that, just need the fastest most stable one really. [1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8474 -- Paul Howard web: phoward.com   |   twitter: @phowardcom   tel (UK):  +44 (0)1293 738158  |  mobile (UK):  +44 (0)7903 505153   |   tel (US) : +1 251 243 0058 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.