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| VMware Fusion | 
 enlarge | From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $55.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Format: Cd
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
Condition: Brand New! Unopened! UPC intact
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great virtualization software. July 26, 2008
Very easy to use. Makes virtualization simple. Make sure your windows OS install is on a single disk. If you have a multiple disk install it won't work. (for a free alternative check out VirtualBox)
 VMWare Fusion July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased VMWare Fusion for my iMac and it works great. I appreciate the concept of virtual appliances to make my Windows work easier to handle on my Mac.
Great for Mac Newbies! July 22, 2008
I've never owned a Mac until just recently. And the thought of transferring documents and finding applications that were installed on our Windows machine seemed like a very daunting task. When I learned that I could simply transfer our existing PC onto a VM under Fusion, I knew I had the best way to make the transition. Thankfully, I'm very familiar with VMware's other products, such as Workstation and ESX, since I use both at work.
Installing Fusion was a breeze. This was one of the first applications that I had a chance to install on a Mac, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.
The next step, and the most complicated was converting my existing PC into a VM and transferring it over to the Mac. VMware has a tool that makes this very easy. Once I had the vmdk file created, I put it out on a Windows share and used the Mac 'Connect to a Server' feature to copy off the Windows share. Importing the VM into fusion was pretty straight forward.
Overall, everything worked great. However, I didn't anticipate the resource overhead that Fusion and a running VM would take. I would highly recommend that before you do this, that you have at least 2GB of RAM. The processor in our iMac 24" has plenty of power, but the default 1GB just doesn't cut it.
I can say that this software is one of the coolest products out there. The integration between the VM and the Mac OS is amazing. From the seamless mode, to sharing USB devices, it all just works so well. I'm not familiar with Parallels, but I would have to say that Fusion offers a terrific solution for those that may be interested in making the switch from PC to Mac. Also, if you're a cross-platform developer and prefer the Mac, than this would seem like a must-have to test against Windows.
EXCELLENT PRODUCT, BUT NOW SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER WITH PARALLELS July 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have little that I can add to all that has already been said about this magical product, but I wish Amazon will update the "Featured Reviews" and include some of the more recent ones. All of the current highlighted selections are from 2007 and show the competing product, Parallels, in poor light, which as of July 2008 is far from accurate.
Parallels now offers everything Fusion offers, and is in some cases faster, especially with XP Service Pack 3 (in my experience and in some testing by third parties--Google is your friend.) With the "Coherence" mode, you can use guest OSes just as though you were using an OSX application including seamless Command-Tab switching, share folders across OSes, create snapshots (to revert to in case your OS becomes corrupted), and so on. The networking, USB support, printing, and all of that simply works out of the box without a hitch.
Fusion is a stellar system too, no doubt. But to be fair to both of these superb tools, they now have comparable feature sets, so let's not pointlessly denigrate one or the other. Both of them are equally decent, both of them are the exact same price (hail competition), but if you're one for eye candy, Parallels is just a wee bit prettier in my humble opinion.
That said, you won't go wrong with either. As a sneaky little feature, Fusion allows you to easily import your Parallels virtual machines into Fusion without the original CD of the OS. Nice! :)
Great product July 21, 2008
I had tried Boot Camp for several years and it was alright but I did not like having to close the Apple side every time I needed to use the Windows side. With VMware Fusion I can easily move from one to the other. It has worked as well as Boot Camp did so I am very pleased with it. I had used Parallels in the past but found it too confusing.
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