![]() ![]() I moved to Parallel because it offer deeper integration into OSX and performs better than VMware. One needs to consider all things in totality. VMware still treats its customers better than Parallel does. After 30 days, you'll need to pay to redownload the software. Parallel does not offer unlimited download. Parallel does not offer multiple installations - just 1 copy, 1 installation.ģ. Parallel competitive pricing is $39.99, not $29.Ģ. However, I must say the experience is not entirely pleasant and would caution the people here that if you're migrating to Parallel soley because of pricing, then you're in for a surprise.ġ. I think the Fusion guys need to get their act together because its just to easy and too cheap to make the switch, user are not going to put up with poor software and being ripped off when there are alternatives that run rings round Fusion!Īnd so myself, a long time VMware user (since version 1), moved to Parallels as well. I didn't want to change platforms but the combination of buggy software, no fixes and then being stung for an version upgrade in the hope of bug fixes that should have been provided in a point release is beyond a joke. I made the choice to try the Paralells cross upgrade promotion, why the hell did I wait so long? Parallels was so easy to move to, my Windows 7 and Microtik development VM's migrated without a hitch and what a differance, the VM's run like they are on there own hardware, the Macbook doesn't even know it has VM's running on it and runs at full speed once the VM has loaded and so far no obvious bugs and the abilty to access the VM and my Macbook from an iPad is awesome. Now reading the latest forum posts it looks like 4.x is just as bad if not worse than 3.x, well this is one user that is not prepared to go through the 3.x fiasco all over again waiting for a point release that never arrives just to be stung yet again for another version pay grab. Later versions of 3.x improved a little but still almost unusable and judging by the forum posts I was not aloan, I waited for a decent point release but it never came and now we have 4.x as a paid upgrade with no discount for existing users, how the hell can they expect users to pay for an upgrade when they don't fix the previous release and leave users hanging. After moving from 2.0 to 3.0 I have never been happy, degraded VM performance, buggy, and at times the Mac grinding to a halt. Well it looks like I've joined the growing flood of users leaving fusion behind after being a loyal vmware customer since the early days on various platforms and fusion since version 2.0. (And yes, I'll probably evalate Parallels at some point. ![]() So I'll probably just wait for now and pay the $50 next year, around when Parallels is charging you for version 9. I'm not sure if Fusion v4.0 is worth $50 to upgrade to just yet, given that 3.1.3 is still working well for me. So the real question to ask is, is Parallels worth paying more for? ![]() I believe Parallel's upgrade price was generally $30 each time, so it comes out ~$30-40 more than Fusion was for the same period. (And as a bonus, they'll have worked out the bugs by then.)Īnd if paying for upgrades only a year apart bothers you, then switching to Parallels is the last thing you should do:Īs far as I can tell, all of these were paid upgrades. Noone is forcing you to upgrade to Fusion 4 in the same year that you upgraded to version 3. I just paid for version 3 in the beginning of this year. ![]()
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