Special-K Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I was looking for some emulation program for when I install OSX86 or when I get my Macbook. What's the best one to use? The only things I would use the emu for would be for playing Guild Wars, iPod Movie Converter, Acid Pro and Office 2007 (until Office:mac 2008 is out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well, VMWare Fusion and Parallels are your best options really. Both have their own pro's and con's, but in my opnion, VMWare Fusion is looking to be the better of the two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 What about CrossOver? I heard that was decent. I also heard that Boot Camp wasn't too shabby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 CrossOver does not have a lot of support. Here is a list of supported applications. Remember, even if it is not on that list means it has not been tested, it might still work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 CrossOver does not have a lot of support. Here is a list of supported applications. Remember, even if it is not on that list means it has not been tested, it might still work Correct, the list doesn't seem to be updated enough and a lot of the information is outdated. The only way to know is to try it. Some things just won't work while others seem to work great. (Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 and MS Office 2003 all work great for me. Although they can run in Parallels and Fusion I avoid needing a full Windows OS installation this way.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 I guess I could give CrossOver a shot first, just to avoid the whole Windows install. Even though CrossOver didn't say it supported any of the programs I wanna use. Worth a try anywho. If worst comes to worst, Fusion. Thanks for being helpful everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I recommend Parallels, just because I don't like the idea of using beta software. VMware Fusion also seems to be a good choice but I'm not using it till it is fully released (not just beta). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I recommend Parallels, just because I don't like the idea of using beta software. VMware Fusion also seems to be a good choice but I'm not using it till it is fully released (not just beta). I like Fusion better but they are both perfectly workable. I'm not basing it on the IDEA of using a beta, but the actual experience of using both. (beta or otherwise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I've tested Parallels, works flawlessly on the programs I used. I have tried out Fusion a bit here and there but Parallels just seems to integrate better into Mac OS X for some reason (I don't know why....Just seems like it for me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxotes Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I recommend Parallels, just because I don't like the idea of using beta software. VMware Fusion also seems to be a good choice but I'm not using it till it is fully released (not just beta). Fusion is out in version 1.0... not beta any more. The beta currently available is a beta of 1.1. I like Fusion better except for one thing. Both Parallels and Fusion let you keep all your docs on your Mac and point your "My Documents" folder to it. But with Parallels, you can also associate certain file types with a Windows program within the OS X finder, so that double-clicking a document (e.g., a Word 2007 .docx file) in the Finder launches the Windows program to open them. I haven't found a way to do this in Fusion. For me that's a big advantage for Parallels because I can use spotlight to find the documents I want and open them directly from there, rather than have to navigate to them using the Windows file system, or install Google Desktop in Windows to find my docs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 I think I'm gonna like Fusion more solely because of that whole Unity View thing. Although I am considering installing both and then just figuring out from there which one to pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Remember, for now, Fusion does not have Windows Vista Unity support. It only works for Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted October 2, 2007 Author Share Posted October 2, 2007 ....Well then, umm, GOD DAMNIT SON OF A Now I need to download XP TO DEMONOID!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZarniwoop Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Remember, for now, Fusion does not have Windows Vista Unity support. It only works for Windows XP. That is not correct. Unity works fine with Windows Vista, I used it with VMWare Fusion 1.0 and now with the current 1.1 beta. No issues at all, other than Unity only working on one monitor. Perhaps you're thinking of Windows Aero in VMWare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 What do you mean one monitor? I'm gonna be using Fusion on a laptop, do I need an external display too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 No no, he was talking about putting Windows(or whatever) on an external display and Mac OS X on your laptop's display. Or vise versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 (phew) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOCa Cola Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 isn't parallels' coherance feature the same as the fusion feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 in short, no. coherence doesnt allow you to move windows independently (this may change in the next version). remember - crossover is not an emulator, its an API layer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 I tried an early beta of VMWare Fusion and didn't have the best of luck. Haven't tried it again so I don't know what improvements have been made. I've been working with Parallels for awhile now and it seems to be improving with every minor release. I wouldn't run major editing or authoring software on it, but it does a lot of things very nicely...including the whole MS Office 2007 Suite. I was really impressed that I could install Daemon Tools and created virtual cd/dvd drives to run several programs that I use regularly, including MS Streets and Trips. It reads the disk images from my HFS+ storage drive so I don't have to import them to the Windows virtual drive. Pretty responsive for virtual drives within a virtual drive. The whole seemless cutting and pasting between operating systems is great. I can't wait until we get to the 4.0 and 5.0 versions in the future. Virtual OSs may be the way of the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realfolkblues Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I would go with bootcamp for playing your games much faster. and then whatever you feel is best for the office type stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Actually the current build of Parallels does manage windows independently. I've tried both Fusion and Parallels, and for my purposes I liked Parallels better, but its turning into a religious thing for some folks. I also use Crossover for a few things, but a couple of warnings -- .net apps won't run at all, so you are out of luck on most of the newer MS software (including Office 2007). It's also quite slow, especially to launch. Once its running however, you don't have all the overhead of running a complete second OS installation. It's not uncommon for me to be sitting here with two versions of windows running (server 2003 and XP) alongside Mac OS at the same time. Makes development and testing super easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I have both on my desktop hackintosh, but in my Portable Dellintosh I only have Fusion, I carry all of my VMs there, Win98, WinXP, Linux, Mac OS X 10.4.3 that I can use from Mac OS X, Vista or Linux, that does not apply with Parallels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 i find parallels slower than vmware fusion (which is probably true when i searched and found out the actual benchmark scores) but parallels is more configurable and organises your virtual machine files better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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