- #Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo for free#
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- #Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo update#
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The VMware one works well enough, but it's kind of huge, even with only five items, and the animation when you resume a VM feels kind of sloppy. I don't know that anyone relies on the large picture preview to know which VM they are looking at, so I prefer the space-friendly Parallels library. VMware's new library also got a facelift, but I find the new one's still too clunky: Version 4 compacts it all by removing the icons, gets rid of the bottom sliver, and it all makes for a better experience, especially on smaller screens: Version 3's was a little space-inefficient, with its gray bar using a healthy portion of screen real estate: VMware's single window mode also got honed. It makes sense and has nice icons, so I can't complain. For instance, the settings panel now looks like the system preferences: Advertisement The interface for VMware Fusion has always been pretty minimal, though it has been spruced up a bit in version 4 by using OS X-inspired elements. It's subtle and sleek, and the spaces at the top are filled with additional items depending on the version of Parallels you bought. The Create New Virtual Machine also got a tweak: I think it's safe to say this motif isn't going to become brushed metal, which was the trucker hat of interface trends. The VM library now has the iOS/Lion textile pattern as a backdrop.
#Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo for free#
This may seem like a no-brainer, but not all apps got this for free when running in 10.7-BBEdit 10 and Photoshop CS5 are two apps that come to mind that don't have support for this yet. Updates and interface changesīoth VMware and Parallels have made some small tweaks to their respective interfaces, both headlining these as "Lion Ready." Both support OS X 10.7's window resizing from all window edges and corners.
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#Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo pro#
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Santa Rosa.Radeon 5870 and Quadro 4000 test scenarios.2TB HD striped RAID array for VM storage.120GB OWC Mercury Elite on 6GB/s SAS PCI express card for system disk.Mac Pro dual-hexacore Westmere Xeon 2.66 GHz.For the sake of consistency, I'll cover Parallels first and follow up with VMware Fusion's results. Differences are covered, and where there's a directly comparable result between the two apps, I've awarded a winner for that category. VMware's feature updates sounded familiar-3D performance updates, Lion-specific interface enhancements, and OS X 10.7 virtualization support-so we decided to throw both programs into one review.
#Vmware fusion for mac core 2 duo update#
Shortly after we started reviewing Parallels Desktop 7, VMware released a major update to its rival consumer-oriented virtualization app VMware Fusion, now at version 4.
(Read our original Parallels 6 and Fusion 3 reviews for more on the older versions.) We stripped the hype wrappers off of the new Parallels Desktop 7 and VMWare Fusion 4 to see who's the baddest, and who's just bad.
The powerhouses of Mac OS X virtualization both got beefy updates in the last few weeks and they're begging for comparison.
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