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| From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
List Price: $79.99
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Rating:  240 reviews
Sales Rank: 332
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: VMFUSMBX2
Model: VMFUSMBX2
UPC: 717103140372
EAN: 0717103140372
ASIN: B000UK3GVA
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 11-15 of 240
 Horrendous experience with set up and installation October 6, 2007
Sundrydrop (mile high)
16 out of 29 found this review helpful
It took seven days and endless hours to reach the correct customers service. The actual company that produced this product kept on referring us to the master company and vice versa. Finally, they refused phone help and emailed, requiring that we start over from square one. After additional endless time, they never could help us install ANY print driver. Really anticipated this product but was extremely disappointed. I personally believe that Apple needs to develop their own product and make their excellent customer service available. Otherwise, what a nightmare!
 It just works- November 5, 2007
S. Lewis (Danville, CA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I purchased Parallels 3.0 and experienced a major crash, losing my entire virtual machine. I'm not sure what I did wrong that could have resulted in the crash, but it caused me a lot of grey hair and wasted hours.
I decided to try VMWare's 30 day trial, and then purchased it from Amazon. I haven't experienced any crashes or other buggy behavior with it. I do miss some of the Parallels slickness such as having the windows toolbar appear in unity mode, and being able to span multiple monitors. That was extremely slick and intuitive in parallels. I tend to not use unity in vmware as a result, and I go crazy copying and pasting between mac and windows because the ctrl/command keys are different between the OS's. If you run in Unity mode, the mac keys are mapped to windows functions. I wish this worked outside of unity mode. 1.1 is supposed to fix some of this, but no dual display support. Other thing being fixed (thankfully) in 1.1 is the ability to eject a cd or dvd using the eject key.
Overall, its a very powerful tool, and has been very reliable. Works fine with Leopard too. Just wish some of the UI was as slick as Parallels.
 Flawless December 26, 2007
Chris Lange (Orange County, CA United States)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I first looked at buying Parallels. After reading the reviews I decided to go with Fusion. What a pleasant surprise. I asked for this as a present. I dreaded installing it. You always wonder how smooth things will go. What I hate more than anything else is reading instructions on how to install things. Now don't get me wrong, you will have to set aside a couple of hours to install this, but the computer is doing all the work not me. I have a MacBook 2.2Ghz OS 10.5. I also have 4GB of RAM installed. I allocated 1GB to Window's XP. I threw in the disk and hit install. After it's all in, there is an update to VM Fusion 1.1 That's a 172MB download. That takes awhile. Again it's doing all the work, not me. Installation of Window's XP was also easy and effortless. Next step it was all running and running well. I have to run a program that interfaces with my company's 45 year old computer system. Now let me tell you that the people with Window's computers have a 50% failure rate of trying to use this program to access our company's computer. This program ran flawlessly on my computer. It operates fast and perfectly. One more thing, shutting down Windows and quitting VM then restarting is very fast. It takes about 20 seconds to boot up from a complete shutdown. I couldn't be more happy.
Not Ready for Real World Use September 3, 2007
Gabe Bantum (Princeton, NJ)
15 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was using Boot Camp and saw that you can use it with Vmware. Well, after about 10 minutes of using it inside Fusion, it crashed my Boot Camp partition. Then when I tried using it again in Boot Camp, it did not work and was corrupt and totally unusable. So frustrating! I also tried just using a virtual machine inside the program and it crashed on me AGAIN. Looks like Fusion is just not ready for real world use. I might try again in a year once they have the bugs out.
Great product! August 29, 2007
P. Knutson (Seattle, WA USA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I recently purchased a Macbook mid range (which I love), and unfortunately I have a couple of necessary software programs that require Windows. After researching all the options for running windows on Mac I decided to try Fusion. Less than one hour after Fusion arrived I had Windows XP installed on my Mac. It works perfectly! Two weeks and no problems so far. I would prefer to not "need" Windows, but since I do I am very thankful for Fusion.
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