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Review: Vista-intosh: VMware Gone Fusion | |
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| Time: 00:06 EST/05:06 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Vista, XP, Mac or Linux? Why make customers choose when a VAR can offer any of these operating systems on one machine, using tools like VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X.
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| #1 By 72426 (69.109.8.160) at 5/7/2008 6:50:23 AM |
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Sadly this article is trash, as it thinks the applications are running a 'bit' more native than they really are, as CPU level native is fine, but Video level is not there natively. So even if the CPU score is close, don't expect the applications to run like they would in BootCamp.
Also here is a line from the article, if you can spot the massive technical error, then you can probably assume the quality of the article follows the same level of ignorance. FTA: "For review, VMWare Fusion was installed on a Mac-mini running OS 10.5, with 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (PowerMac G5) and 1 GB RAM. " --G5 uh? And I have a nice bridge to sell also. PS How come OS X/Mac users will scream how great OS X and how much Windows sucks, and then spend the better half of a weekend getting their Mac to run Windows Software? And don't even go there with more Windows users, blah blah... Because if OS X was really great (and easy to develop for) all developers would have an OS X version, it really is that simple. There is a reason why Microsoft continues to win the development tools and development platform awards every year. And now Macs are becoming one of their biggest growing OS installation bases. More Vista & XP Sales to Mac users, woo hoo!! |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/7/2008 10:19:27 AM |
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#1: Also here is a line from the article, if you can spot the massive technical error, then you can probably assume the quality of the article follows the same level of ignorance.
One error and you dismiss the entire article?? It looks more like you want to trash the article and this is the easiest way to do it. PS How come OS X/Mac users will scream how great OS X and how much Windows sucks, and then spend the better half of a weekend getting their Mac to run Windows Software? Maybe there's a particular app with no Mac equivalent that they need to run? Maybe they like playing PC games? Maybe you don't know everything?? Why are you mixing OS & apps anyway? Wanting or needing to use a particular app does not validate the OS it runs on in any way. And don't even go there with more Windows users, blah blah... Because if OS X was really great (and easy to develop for) all developers would have an OS X version, it really is that simple. Um, why not go there since that's the obvious answer? If I'm a software house, I'm not going to target a tiny market segment as the development costs are the same but the expected return is much lower because of the smaller user base. That does not necessarily mean that Mac dev tools are inferior (although I believe that is the case). For example. the NeXT was cool and had a great dev environment. Too bad nobody was running NeXTStep. There is a reason why Microsoft continues to win the development tools and development platform awards every year. And now Macs are becoming one of their biggest growing OS installation bases. More Vista & XP Sales to Mac users, woo hoo!! Woo hoo. I'm not sure why you're so excited. I personally don't feel my life getting incrementally better with each Microsoft sale. |
| #3 By 2201 (82.45.132.196) at 5/8/2008 3:55:41 AM |
| The main problem I have with this article is that in their first couple of sentences they talk about how the customer doesn't have to choose an OS. However, in order to run VMware Fusion (or any other similar VM apps), you need to choose an OS! When I was reading those sentences, I thought they were going to talk about the software that runs on the bare metal setup (i.e. without an OS). If they were, those sentences would be more accurate. |
| #4 By 16797 (142.46.227.65) at 5/8/2008 9:51:13 AM |
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There is also this free product called VIRTUALBOX that too allows you to transfer just windows and other GUI elemets from guest system to host desktop, just like VMWare Fusion or Parallels do.
It works on practically any combination of guest/host systems. |
| #5 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at 5/8/2008 5:36:12 PM |
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#2 - The statement may not invalidate the whole article but it does go to show the little amount of knowledge the article writer has, ergo, what OTHER mistakes or incorrect information has the article writer used.
Clearly there are mulitple mistakes with the article's information which is not uncommon these days but there are some very basic mistakes! and thats just bad journalism. Even the very first sentence is incorrectly worded - the assumed intent of the sentence makes sense but the way its worded doesn't. Secondly, ANY technical writer would never bother reporting performance benchmarks of a such a situation. We all know that virtualisation has a performance hit especially graphical. OS X running on Windows, is just as bad as Windows running on Mac. #4 - I'd never heard of VirtualBox before although I'm never gone looking :-) It looks like a very good product. I assume its some sort of hypervisor that installs on the bare metal upon which you load the virtualised host OS. Very much like "real" VMware. If thats the case, then they're on to something there!! I personally think this will be the method of OS installation in the future. |
| #6 By 16797 (142.46.227.65) at 5/9/2008 9:15:41 AM |
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For me, the killer feature is its "seamless" mode. It is so nice to have just an application window transferred from the guest machine to the desktop on the host OS. Guest's taskbar is also "copied" to the host's desktop.
I always needed something like Parallels for Windows. I use it a lot to run Windows server as guest and then I can work with it from my XP, without ever using remote desktop or something like that. It's really like running two systems on one desktop. I had some problems with v.1.5 related to moving virtual machines to other computers (didn't really work when moved or all snapshots were lost, etc), don't know if it is fixed in v.1.6. |
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