Re: OSX: VMWare or Parallels?

I still use VMWare on my MAC (since I have it) but I agree with Jon's assessment. Given the choice I would use Parallels.

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From: PcTech [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 3:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OSX: VMWare or Parallels?

I gave up using VM Ware on my Mac for two reasons.

First their upgrade policy seems unfair to existing users and they effectively forced a paid upgrade far more frequently than Parallels. That may have changed but I never revisited it because as far as I know they have never changed the other issue I had …

Which is that their C drive is seen by the Mac as one big amorphous lump. That in turn chewed up a lot of time and space with Time Machine and no way was I going to exclude it. Parallels treats the C drive as a mountable image and all the files are individually visible in OSX. I find that much more convenient.

It always struck me that VM Ware was more oriented towards corporate customers whereas Parallels was more oriented to individual users. On the rare occasions when I have had problems with Parallels their Twitter group have resolved them really quickly. With VM Ware I had several support issues and got very little help.

Just my 10 cents worth.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Aug 12, 2016, at 4:18 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Folks:

Any strong arguments regarding VMWare Fusion or Parallels on Mac OSX?

I'm currently using Parallels ... but we use VMWare at work (on PC's) ... I'm wondering if it would make sense to switch to VMWare Fusion on my Mac?

Thanks!

david


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