I recently moved from Parallels to test drive Fusion. I had read somewhere that Fusion outperformed Parallels in many aspects, but I had lost the link that had this info. Basically, the story was that Fusion had better memory management than Parallels and this lead to a better performance for both the host and guest OS.
So far, I have been running Fusion for almost a week on daily basis and have found it robust, fast, and reliable. Thanks to an entry in Paul’s blog, I was guided towards a page in Cnet that benchmarks the 2 in various tasks such as media encoding and photoshop tests. In all the tests where VMWare is present, it does outperform Parallels.
What do you think? Is it worth it to move from Parallels towards a product from a company that has become synonymous with the term virtualization?
[...] reply that SWsoft when CNet released their benchmarks of Parallels vs. Fusion (I blogged about it not so long ago). It seems that, according to Baimetov, the tests were not very realistic in terms of the average [...]
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