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eh? #

By jai Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 14:23 GMT

the article makes it sound like Windows compatibility is the new feature of 4.0

but it's always been able to run windows on a mac (and with reasonable performance too)

new? #

By David Kelly Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 16:00 GMT

Virtualisation has let people run Windows apps on Macs for ages. Why does this article suggest that this is something new?

Parallels is behind the times #

By Steven Noonan Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 19:09 GMT

VMware Fusion 2.0 has been Parallels 4.0 for months now.

VMWare #

By Scott Mckenzie Posted Wednesday 12th November 2008 10:20 GMT

And being a VMWare Fusion 1.x user you get a FREE upgrade to the latest version, rather than having to pay each time Parallels release something.

Not a difficult decision for me to make....

Upgrade poor #

By Sean Posted Thursday 13th November 2008 23:27 GMT

The thing is, if you had v3 and upgrade, your likely to waste many hours.

On the face of it, its very cheap software for what you get. However, if you waste at least a day (and the forums back this up) upgrading, is it really such a cheap / viable solution???

This has been the worst upgrade experience I have EVER had (as is the case for many others).

And the claimed speed improvement after finally upgrading? Not a chance! The last build of v3 was fine, v4 is awful.

Its very sad, I would love for them to succeed in competing in the vitalization market, but this is not the answer unfortunately.