VMware Fusion (VMware for mac) goes gold

[Goosemaster]

http://www.vmware.com

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion

They are offering a $20 Mail in Rebate for those late to the party.

 

[TheStu]

knew that I should have purchased it when it was still discounted 50%!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: TheStu
knew that I should have purchased it when it was still discounted 50%!

Told ya

 

[manly]

So far, I'm liking VMware Fusion. It feels resource-light compared to Parallels 3; and I've always liked VMware Workstation. It doesn't support Aero under Vista, but that's probably a good thing. I'm not planning on trying Unity anytime soon because half the bug list in the release notes appears to be related to Unity.

Since VMware Fusion is being sold at retail, I'm sure it'll wind up being close to $50 (after rebate) at some point in time.

 

[RichieZ]

maybe you can help me understand why I should consider replacing parallels? I only use it in coherence mode and pretty much only to do things I can't in OSX

 

[TheStu]

Some people find that VMWare runs more smoothly than Parallels, that was why I switched for example. Also, others have found that they have a whole lot of trouble in getting any support from Parallels, whereas they have found VMWare to be much quicker in responding.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
maybe you can help me understand why I should consider replacing parallels? I only use it in coherence mode and pretty much only to do things I can't in OSX

At this time switching probably isn't worth it...it's a great product, but I got it for about $30 so I'll let the people that paid full price argue that