VMwareFusion or Parallels or something else?

[Cleo]

My partner works for an accounting firm and needs to run a few windows programs on her Mac without having to reboot.

In the past I've used Parallels but haven't upgraded it to run under Snow Leopard since I never used it.

Seems VMwareFusion is what is popular these days for running Windows on a Mac but thought I'd ask what others are using these days?

[Simon]

I'm interested in the answer but I can't offer any advice since I've been running Windows on a PC notebook when I need it.

There are lots of reviews comparing the two, but most are from 2009-2010.
Here's the only one I saw from 2011 in case you haven't seen it yet...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/10/virtual-showdown-parallels-desktop-7-and-vmware-fusion-4-reviewed.ars

(it picks Parallels as the clear winner)


HTH

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[dunc]

I've never used my as a PC - but I did read a good review of VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) in a magazine - but I never got futher than downloading it

[mOrrI]

VirtualBox is quite nice...
Vmware is a bit heavy...

But it all depends on the machine you are using to run the Virtual Machines...

Apart from that, visualization is a must now a days :D