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From:Smith Micro Software Inc.
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5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Rock Solid, Very Compatible, 2007-11-25
After using Parallels for a year on my MacBook Pro, I decided to try VMware about a month ago. I didn't realize how much I was missing.
First, I've always struggled getting the latest Ubuntu releases to work on Parallels. For example I have to manually turn on networking every boot. After installing Ubuntu on VMware it just works.
Second, and even more importantly I run Windows XP primarily for use with my Garmin 60cx gps unit. On vacation in Europe last summer it drove me crazy that Parallels would just die, I had to carefully choose the smallest set of maps to download or the map transfer would seem to work but when I tried to set up a route on the 60cx I would get errors. After installing VMware I used the handy VMware Importer to transfer my windows image. As a test I tried to download the maps for all of North America. It worked flawlessly the first try. Not only that but I can create routes to even the most remote locations without error.
Finally, I really appreciate that the guest operating systems seem more snappy under VMware, while at the same time it is more friendly with my mac applications. I don't feel like my machine is bogged down when I leave a virtual machine running in the background.
I mentioned the VMware importer, which is great, the only problem I had when I imported my windows image was that I had turned on desktop sharing in parallels. When I first booted under vmware I could not get to My Documents and I could not install the VMware tools. A couple of quick edits to the registry fixed that problem and everything works just fine.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 VMWare shows its professionalism, 2007-11-25
VMWare is widely used by business and it shows in the well thought-out fusion product. It just works. The interface is intuitive and the ability to attach/detach drives, printers, USB devices is nice. Works just like a standalone PC. I can't compare it to Parallels since I have not used it, but I went with this because of VMWare's strong commercial track record and I am not disappointed. Businesses require reliability and the products must work well and VMWare appears to keep improving their product to keep up with changes in the workplace. As a home user in this instance, I appreciate getting a professionally proven product.
1 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Very each to install, 2007-11-22
It is excellent product. You can do almost everything in windows, except games that uses 3D graphic.
By the way, if you are really into games, then you should not get Mac anyway.
2 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Fusion Works fine! M$ not so good!, 2007-11-22
I installed Fusion on my MacBook Pro. I have 2gb of ram and it ran very nicely. The toughest part is the WinXPPro copy I bought on ebay that is OEM. My attempt to update the system software brought a message from M$oft that I had an invalid serial number and I could could upgrade for $149. I had already spent $135 on ebay for the OEM system software and opted to scrap the project. I don't need Windoze that bad. How does Apple manage to sell a totally usable superior operating system for $129, no questions asked. Sounds like greed to me.
I decided to buy Fusion because of the rebate and the special price Amazon offered back in October that made the final price attractive. It worked very seamlessly during installation and ran the system fine for the short time I used it. I am currently awaiting my rebate which will help cut my losses.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Runs Windows XP smoothly, 2007-11-19
Love the host-guest filesystem access (shared folders). Was able to watch an avi from the mac host filesystem flawlessly within windows XP. Have noticed some guest browser slowness and timeouts when I'm using bit torrent in the windows XP guest. So there might be some issues with the network driver scheduling. But overall I was ecstatic with how seamlessly this integrated with the Mac.
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