Both also integrates with Expose where the Windows application would appear in Expose along with the other running Mac applications. What happens is Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion hides the whole Windows guest OS and only reveals the window of the application on your Mac Desktop. What this mode provides is the ability to run Windows applications on your Mac machine as if its a native Mac application. It took me a while too before I was able to decide which one to go for but in the end I did choose and I was surprised why I did for Parallels, and how little those difference that made the choice was. So without wasting anymore bytes, let’s get into the whys of Parallels Desktop version 6 for Mac versus VMWare Fusion 3.1!īoth Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMWare Fusion had a feature called Coherence and Unity mode respectively. In VMWare’s case, Fusion is the only Mac product amongst their huge portfolio, so it’s not difficult to see a lesser focus compared to their other products. Also, Parallels Desktop for Mac is perhaps one of the key products of Parallels, so I’m sure a lot of investment dollars goes into the R&D of the product as well. However, I do see that Parallels has always been in the forefront in getting new features (useful ones too) out into the market much faster than VMWare. So choosing between these two isn’t all that easy today. Template configs are provided on both products to ease that process. Installation and setting up of a new virtual machine is fairly easy that anyone who knows how to install Windows would be able to do it. As I mentioned earlier too, both have very similar sets of features as well. So those comparisons aren’t valid anymore. Most postings I see online generally compares the much older versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. Why so? Well, in my experience, both Parallels Desktop version 5 (and 6) and WMWare Fusion 3.1 are very stable in running the virtual machines. Instead, I’d focus more on the differences and key features that made my choice. This would also not be a complete review or walkthrough of Parallels (or VMWare Fusion). Instead, I’d share my views based on my experiences using both of them within the trial period when I evaluated both before deciding to put my money on Parallels. I won’t be divulging much into the comparisons of Parallels Desktop versus VMWare Fusion here in this post. However, what I can do instead is to perhaps share my experience with using Parallels Desktop for Mac on version 5 as well as some interesting features I found useful on the (currently as of this writing) recently released version 6 of Parallels Desktop for Mac. So, which would you choose? To be honest, even I don’t think I can provide that answer. A quick search on Google as well as on Twitter reveals two camps that is generally happy with their choices. Both also costs the same retail price of US$79.99 and providing almost the same set of features. And if you’ve done your homework online, you would know that there is basically two main options to choose from, either to go with Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMWare Fusion.īoth are pretty good choices and the current versions are very stable indeed. If you’re like me, especially if you are working in an organizations where a most of the internal ERP systems are built only for Windows platform, and is also a Mac user, chances are you would want to be able to run both Mac and Windows applications at the same time. UPDATE: This article is refreshed in this latest published version here: 3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!
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