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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 969461" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Parallels is a solid product, but I found it to be a bit glitchy. They seem to be quicker to implement new features (and of course, they seem to charge for updates often too - and it's not cheap either). Parallels is a fairly new player in this industry, VMWare is used both in the consumer market and also in the enterprise, where you'll find it running on everything from huge server farms to corporate desktops where it's more advantageous to "sandbox" a desktop environment. I think a lot of the "lessons learned" from that vast background factor into their Mac product.</p><p></p><p>Make sure you're on the right website, here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/" target="_blank">VMware Fusion: Run Windows and Chrome OS on Mac for Desktop Virtualization</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure. The memory is only being used up while the VM is up and running. When you're done using it, you'll just close the window, which puts it to sleep, freeing up your resources. The only time you'd need to be concerned about lack of resources is if you decide to run multiple VMs concurrently. So, for example, if you had a Windows 7 VM and a Linux VM and an XP VM, running on top of your host OS (OS X) simultaneously, you'd probably be vying for resources. But then, why would you ever need to have multiple VMs open simultaneously, unless you were trying to create a network of machines all running on top of a single host?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I used AVG for many years - up until Intel bought them out and they started introducing major code bloat in their products. AVG is now as bloated as the big boys (Norton and McAfee) and almost as much as a resource hog. So, I switched to Avira after I saw it score an '8' on Maximum PC's comparison.</p><p></p><p>When Security Essentials came out, I gave it a whirl and couldn't believe it was a Microsoft product. It does what it's supposed to do and doesn't get in your way. I have it on my 3 PCs, Boot Camp partition and my Windows VMs. Haven't had a single problem in the 3 months I've been using it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 969461, member: 24098"] Parallels is a solid product, but I found it to be a bit glitchy. They seem to be quicker to implement new features (and of course, they seem to charge for updates often too - and it's not cheap either). Parallels is a fairly new player in this industry, VMWare is used both in the consumer market and also in the enterprise, where you'll find it running on everything from huge server farms to corporate desktops where it's more advantageous to "sandbox" a desktop environment. I think a lot of the "lessons learned" from that vast background factor into their Mac product. Make sure you're on the right website, here: [url=http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/]VMware Fusion: Run Windows and Chrome OS on Mac for Desktop Virtualization[/url] Sure. The memory is only being used up while the VM is up and running. When you're done using it, you'll just close the window, which puts it to sleep, freeing up your resources. The only time you'd need to be concerned about lack of resources is if you decide to run multiple VMs concurrently. So, for example, if you had a Windows 7 VM and a Linux VM and an XP VM, running on top of your host OS (OS X) simultaneously, you'd probably be vying for resources. But then, why would you ever need to have multiple VMs open simultaneously, unless you were trying to create a network of machines all running on top of a single host? I used AVG for many years - up until Intel bought them out and they started introducing major code bloat in their products. AVG is now as bloated as the big boys (Norton and McAfee) and almost as much as a resource hog. So, I switched to Avira after I saw it score an '8' on Maximum PC's comparison. When Security Essentials came out, I gave it a whirl and couldn't believe it was a Microsoft product. It does what it's supposed to do and doesn't get in your way. I have it on my 3 PCs, Boot Camp partition and my Windows VMs. Haven't had a single problem in the 3 months I've been using it. [/QUOTE]
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