OT: Parallels or VMWare Fusion?

[Tim Selander]

There was a recent review on the web of Parallels, Fusion and the
freebie one - forget the name. Parallels was judged the quickest.

I have Fusion on one Mac, using the Bootcamp (Apple's scheme for running
Windows) partition. Parallels on another machine (same speed CPU) using
its own install of WinXP, not Bootcamp.  I don't notice much of a
difference in speed when running apps, but Parallels is much, much
faster at start up and shut down. Not sure if that is the result of
using/not using the Bootcamp partition, but because of that I like
Parallels a lot better.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:
> Thanks  for all your comments.
> So the best is i have to look at both programs. Maybe there are trial versions available.
> 
> Now i have to wait about 14 days for my mac to arrive.  There seems to be delivery problems with the iMac. But i can treat with that. What are 14 days compared to the time i am waiting for the conference dvds. ;-)
> 
> Matthias
>