Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Oct 2009 19:30 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"Was it really only a little over three years ago that the formerly fanciful notion of being able to run Windows apps within OS X without major limitations became reality? Today, archrivals Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion continue to undergo aggressive upgrades aimed at making the virtualization of Windows on Macs even more powerful, seamless, and simple. And today, VMware is announcing that it's taking preorders for VMware Fusion 3, which will ship on October 27th."
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I don't own a mac but I setup my little sister's Macbook with Bootcamp + VMware Fusion. I originally had her using VirtualBox but now she needs Bootcamp. I don't know why but the VBox setup seemed faster and more stable than this new setup when in MacOS X. I didn't have time to do comparisons with parallels.
Having the ability to boot directly into XP for resource intensive programs is a huge plus especially since she needs to run all these engineering/CAD programs that are Windows only. Being able to run that same XP install inside MacOS X for small/quick things made VMware the winner.
I've seen the hacks to get VBox working with bootcamp but since this is not my machine and I don't want to provide 24/365 support for it I choose not to do it.