I’ve been pretty happy with Parallels on my MacBook Pro, which has offered me the ability to run Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows Vista all on a single machine for the past year. There’s a few little niggles, but by-and-large, 99% of what I need an alternate OS to do on my Mac is doable through Parallels. Still, I tried VMWare Fusion last year and came away equally impressed. I passed on it at the time because a license was over $70 and I just didn’t see $70 worth of benefit when I had already had a Parallels license.Last night, I noticed on MacUser that VMWware Fusion was $20 off at Amazon, which brought the price down to $59.99 from the $79.99 list price. On top of that is a $20 mail-in rebate which gets the software for $39.99, and that’s with free shipping. Hmm… I’m thinking it’s now worth having an alternative, especially since I’m running the older version of Parallels. If you’re looking for a virtualization deal for your Mac, feel free to join me. I won’t start any debate of Parallels vs. Fusion; I’ll let you do that in comments as I’m sure there’s a number of differing opinions on the topic.
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