VMware Fusion 4

allosunshine said:
If you want to upgrade to Parallels 7 had you have a VMWare license, you can upgrade using they're switcher discount and it's only £20 or so.
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Which is exactly what I did. Bought another copy of Parallels 6 for £20 with a free upgrade to v7.

It's rather ironic that I obtained my copy of VMware as a competitive upgrade from Parallels 2 ... for £7!

The £45 upgrade from v6 is rather steep, but at least v6 works on Lion. I got rather miffed when Parallels refused to add support for v5 on Snow Leopard.


Gilbert89 said:
Also how many machines does the Parallells licence cover?
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Just the one. Hence why my extra copy comes in handy - can upgrade the old v5 I have on the mini now...
 
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Can't make up my mind if I want to use Vmware/parallels on my new MBP (8GB RAM), or to do this bootcamp thing.
Probably a virtual way because I don't want to be restarting the laptop to boot into Windows, if I need it.. It might be for something quick anyway, the HDD on the MBP has enough space as well and enough RAM.

Will just use my home premium key or a work enterprise one :)

I guess one of the disadvantages though of the virtual way is that I couldn't play games (if I wanted to)? Any others?

Ty
 
You'd be surprised. Parallels is better for graphics work and will play some older games just fine. OK, so you won't get 60fps on Crysis but that is what Bootcamp is for.

Parallels will run a Bootcamp install in a VM so in theory you could pick reboot or VM, but you might hit problems with activation.

Which scheme is the Work licensing on for Enterprise?
 
MagicBoy said:
You'd be surprised. Parallels is better for graphics work and will play some older games just fine. OK, so you won't get 60fps on Crysis but that is what Bootcamp is for.

Parallels will run a Bootcamp install in a VM so in theory you could pick reboot or VM, but you might hit problems with activation.

Which scheme is the Work licensing on for Enterprise?
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Ahh thats quite cool.
Uhm, not sure what scheme the licencs is on. But I'm running enterprise on my desktop at home, I had to get the product key though to activate, when at work on the network it just activates itself.
 
I think they are meant to perform very close now, if you look around there's a few tests showing Fusion to be slightly faster in cpu and a couple of other ways but parallels to be slightly faster in 3D but it's very very close.

It's probably best to go with the cheaper one unless you have a reason for the other one. Parallels comes out more often with cheaper upgrades, Fusion less often with more expensive upgrades, I think someone said you'd have spent more on Parallels over the years keeping it up to date.

Oh actually in the comments they are saying it's about 10-20% faster in 3D.

Fusion 4 vs Parallels 7
 
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Bought fusion, had trouble at first using the iso to install (made an iso from the files I use because I normally install via USB) but had a disk of enterprise and that installed, got it activated now. With the first ISO it was trying to boot over the network.

Runs well, installing a game from steam to see how rubbish it runs. With only 1GB dedicated to the virtual, MW2 won't run so well ;) Will be better when I get the 8GB's (delivered tomorrow) and set aside more RAM for the virtual maybe..
 
Has anyone got any tips to improve battery life?

I get less than 2 hours on a full charge when running windows 7 in WMware Fusion 4. Pausing seems to improve battery life but then I'm not actually using it so there is no real improvement there
 
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