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Originally Posted by Madeezy
Satoshi have you used parallels at all? Any one else?
I am asking as I have heard a few people now say they find VMWare Fusion really good but I am trying to get an apples for apples comment.
My parallels is good no doubt about that but I am finding its slowing my system down at times and thats annoying. Wondering if VMWare would be an improvement?
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Yeah, I was using Parallels initially and gave up on it because of the instability, but this was back on Tiger. Right around the time Leopard came out, I switched to VMWare, and I continue to use it on Snow Leopard.
As for slowing down your system, yeah Parallels has some overhead, but what mostly affects it is how much RAM you allocate to it. OS X in general shines when it has 4 gigs to itself. I have 6 on this and I allocate 2 to VMWare when it's running.
It is worth a shot just to see...there's a demo and it can import parallels vm's. I found it much better and much more stable than Parallels at the time.