It was good to meet you as well and I definitely enjoyed getting a chance to check out your gear. I am already trying to convince my wife I need a Nokia N800. As a side note we made it back home around midnight last night after getting a late start at 8am. Thanks for the safe travel thoughts.

This pretty much confirms what I had found, VMWare Fusion is the way to go. Warner, Marc had told me the same thing so I’m feeling pretty good about this. I am reinstalling Leopard now, the cool part is after rebooting it offered me the ability to migrate my entire system from the Time Machine backup which is happening now. I expect the system to come back up pretty much like I had it before the install. Gotta love Jobs.

I will download and install Fusion after the restore is complete which is going pretty darn fast over the Firewire drive I use. Only about 45 minutes for 32 GB of data. :)

Another vote for Fusion here. I used (and like) Parallels, but Fusion just seems a little more solid.

Incidentally, I don’t think you’ll need to reinstall everything on your virtual machine. There’s a beta of a little programme from VMWare which will let you import a Parallels virtual machine to Fusion – http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/importer_tool.html. Haven’t tried it, but it’s got to be worth a go.

James, go with fusion. I’ve tested both and you will not regret. As you look like loving to connect many devices together, you’ll enjoy how fusion manages USB devices.

Stv from sunny Italy

I’m using VMWare’s Fusion on my iMac and it works very well. Tried out both Parallel’s and Fusion and decided on Fusion for a number of reasons. One is that it will use Boot Camp, it will use that as your virtual machine. Works well.

Guess who gave me this advice? Our late, good friend, Marc Orchant.