After ripping my hair out when Parallels once again ground my system to a halt trying to boot Windows (XP, no less), I finally decided to try VMWare Fusion.
I’m glad I did. At no point during the bootup process or while Vista is running do I feel any performance impacts in Mac OS X that really annoy me. Plus, it just looks more polished and professional than Parallels.
Just curious if anybody out there has any experience with Asterisk. I’m considering setting it up on the HTPC box in the living room, starting out as a voice mail system and then maybe later moving onto more complicating things like extensions and whatnot.
It’s official. Maggie has a job for spring, and we’ll be moving to Omaha in May.
Major life changes: 1. Me: 0.
I started preliminary design work on StudioMan tonight. Owing to all the nice new technologies (and Interface Builder 3… WOW!!) it will be Leopard-only. I’m pretty confident that by the time I get a useful version out the door Leopard will be pretty prevalent.
Interesting…
I may take a look when we’re swapping video cards. I’m happy with Parallels, but I agree, VMWare is a LOT more configurable (at least the versions I’ve worked with).
-=Russ=-
(1) What was parallels doing?
(2) A unified toolbar makes VMWare more “polished” ? I don’t care that much, but doesn’t the fact that you have vastly more horizontal pixels than vertical pixels make the Parallels UI more polished?
From a technical point of view there’s barely any difference between the two. Parallels hypervisor is slightly less resource intensive while VMWare can address both cores on Dual core machines. That’s about it
I just use Windows XP on Parallels for homework and so far I’ve had zero issues with it on Tiger and Leopard with both stable and beta builds, as it’s pretty much taken everything I’ve thrown at it well.
Im not pro something and anti anything else (I just got Parallels because they were actually selling their product when school began and VMWare I don’t think even had their beta out or they weren’t selling it yet) but your post makes no sense to me at all