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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjreynolds143" data-source="post: 1641787" data-attributes="member: 344505">Fusion or Parallels? Fusion!As new switcher whose Accounts software has to run in Windows, not to mention all of those VBA tools that I have in Office (I can hear the groans from here) I needed Windows 7 and thought that my experience might be useful to others.Suffice to say, I tried both, and tried to virtualise my existing laptop. It isn't straightforward!I found that drivers, I think, prevented either of the two programs from virtualising - they both hung or terminated - and I eventually resorted to stripping out software and data that I had already ported across to the Mac. You'll want to do this anyway - as a rule of thumb you'll need as much space on the Mac as used on the Windows machine for the VM.Eventually Fusion worked, and Parallels still didn't. So I paid up, and am now happily running Fusion from an external HDD. Not perhaps the most effective for speed, but for those odd occasions when I want it it is there, and works well.--Incidentally, I should add that I bought Office for Mac, and use that natively as the experience is much better once you've worked out where Microsoft hid everything you are used to using. Office on the VM is only used when I want to run the tools. And I mapped my vmhost to a Windows drive, so that I can still keep all of the files in one place - on the Mac - and just use the VM as a software platform.</blockquote>