On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Kristofer Pettijohn wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Benjamin Tucker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Kristofer Pettijohn wrote:
>> 
>>>> Personally:  Fusion
>>>> 
>>>> Parallels boots faster, but everything runs better in Fusion.
>>>> Everything.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.geekandi.com/2008/12/29/vmware-fusion-2x-vs-parallels-desktop-40-my-thoughts/
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.geekandi.com/2009/01/16/vmware-fusion-vs-parallels-windows-server-2008-install/
>>>> 
>>>> go me.
>>>> 
>>>> Fusion rules cause I use a ton of VMware vSphere stuff now'days, I can
>>>> prototype via Fusion and move it on over easily and quickly.
>>>> 
>>>> I give Fusion 3 thumbs up (as my 4 year old says).
>>> 
>>> Is that one Mac only?  Looks like its about the same price as Parallels, too.  ~ $80.
>> 
>> Same price.  VMware and Parallels seem to take turns running specials, but not frequently.  I had (have) Parallels on my laptop so I waited around for a good price to get Fusion too.  Now they want me to pay for an upgrade and, cheap as I am, I probably will soon.
>> 
>> It is not so much Mac only as VMware just decided to give a different name to their Mac workstation virtualization product.  VMware Workstation 7 is their latest for Windows.  It fills about the same niche.
>> 
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> (top quoting from the iPhone)

Here, I fixed it for you :)

> Does the VMware one offer the "coherence" feature too?

Sure.  They call it "unity."  I'm sure others will disagree with me here, but these are really the same program in almost every way that matters to me.  Since we use VMware on our production machines here and I have VMware on my work computer, I decided to put it on my laptop because I like symmetry.  

Honestly, the biggest benefit I have observed is less chance that I use the Parallels vocabulary instead of VMware vocabulary accidentally.  The performance things Mike brought up are nice too, but parallels seemed "fast enough" for how hard I was working it most of the time.  I am not a gamer, so that is usually not very hard unless I am installing software.  Most of my installing things happens at work.

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