November 25, 2009
I have been running VMWare Fusion 3 and recently installed Parallels 5 on my OSX 10.6.2 MacBook.
Within a short period of using it I decided to delete VMWare Fusion 3 and go with Parallels 5:
- I was able to very easily import the VMWare Fusion virtual machine image into Parallels 5
- I liked the integration options of Parallels with OSX (in particular the fast transition between fullscreen mode and windowed)
- I liked the way Parallels asked for which OS to connect a USB device to when it came active; and
- I particularly liked that Parallels ran XP noticeably faster then VMWare Fusion
Hi Brian,
Many thanks for the information on Parallels 5. I am waiting patiently for my iMac to arrive (build and despatchg 11 Dec arrive 22 Dec with normal provisos of course) and have been looking at Parallels as I do hav eto use MS Access. Been involved with MS since early DOS days so a bit od reading in hand as I prepare to jump to MAC OS X Snow Leopard.
Many thanks
Bryan
Nottingham, UK
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