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| VMware Fusion | 
 enlarge | From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.95
You Save: $35.04 (44%)
New (21) Used (3) from $44.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  199 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: VMFUSMBX2
Model: VMFUSMBX2
UPC: 717103140372
EAN: 0717103140372
ASIN: B000UK3GVA
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Solid product May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What sold me on this product was the ability to run a virtualized machine of an existing Windows partition. This really gives you the best of both worlds in that when you need the extra performance (for games and whatnot), you can boot into Windows natively and when you want to run something that isn't incredibly demanding on your system, you can run that same instance of Windows (or whatever OS) from the VM. Its the "running the SAME instance" which really sells me. Because otherwise you end up having to install two instances of Windows (which would presumably means buying two copies of Windows) which would then mean that the data in the VM instance was not instantly available to you in the native instance. I've never used Parallels and I know there's plenty of fans out there of that product but as far as I know, Parallels does not offer this feature. Plus, from what I understand, Parallels will not take advantage of the multiple processor cores that most modern Macs have.
 New to product. Just wanted to say their support SUCKS!!! May 20, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't say anything positive or negative about the product yet, however, their website AND telephone support is terrible! Its one of those websites where you cannot find the proper link. So instead I called and now I've been on hold for 15 minutes. Also if you miss their instruction to press a key, beware. They don't repeat. I realize I'm just venting right now to kill time while waiting for someone to answer.
Forget Parallels...this is what you want May 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
AWESOME solution for running Win/Mac side by side. The "Unity" feature lets you run your windows programs as if they were running natively on the Mac...you can't tell the difference. You can customize how much of the processor you want to allocate to each machine. The only MINOR annoyances were with setting up windows to use some external equipment. Don't waste your money on Parallels....don't believe me? Buy both, then next week give Parallels to someone you don't like.
 WOW.... Excellent Product May 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased my first Mac in January and love it. I started running into issues of needing a PC environment for various applications. Just got this product in the mail. Installed Windows Vista SP1, Win XP Pro SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04. I now have 4 Operating Systems installed on 1 Mac. I will mainly be running Mac OSX and Windows XP Pro, and with the 4GB of Ram on my machine, it runs like a charm. No hiccups, no slow downs, just runs smoothly and flawlessly. VMWare does the job of installing all the relevant drivers into the virtual OS's. Couldn't be happier.
Great VM product for the MAC May 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ran the beta test version when it was out and had alll kinds of problems. I held off purcahsing the full version until they worked out the kinks. I finally purchased this product in April and have it running well now on my PowerBook Core Duo.
Installation of the software is very easy. Took a little while to get my XP up and running correctly the way I wanted it. You can always install a brand new copy of XP but I decdided to clone my current XP pro machine. Had to download the converter from the vmware web site and run the converter to clone the XP machine. I had to place the virtual machine file locally on the XP machine rather than out on a networked server I have. Even though I'm running 100mb to a connected switch the clone of the xp machine took forever so I gave up. Finally decdided to just have the converter save the file to the cloned machine.
Once I moved the image to my Mac I had to log on as local admin in order to try and add it to my domain. I was unable to add it to my domain for a while until I figured out that I needed to switch the VM into bridge mode rather than NAT mode. Once switched to bridged mode I was able to see my domain controller and add the vm image to the domain.
Over all I'm really pleased with the product and would recommend to anyone who needs to run some windows apps but wants to do it from their mac machine.
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