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Rating:  240 reviews
Sales Rank: 405
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
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| Customer Reviews:
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 I'll wait for Version 2.0, thank you. September 7, 2007
Sean Mcally (Fayetteville, AR)
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
Not impressed. I thought vmWare Fusion would meet my needs, what with the company's reputation, but it seems they have a lot to learn in Mac software development. This one's a turkey, at least for now.
I finally figured out how to get external drives to show up on the Windows desktop, but it took me literally an hour of fiddling and a call to tech support with an additional hour and a half of hold times. Then my USB memory stick just summarily dismounts without me ejecting it. Makes no sense.
I still can't get Fusion to recognize either of my printers - and I know I have the right drivers because they work on my PC which has the same exact Windows install. And if you want to install any other peripheral - like say my credit card swiper that I wanted to use with QuickBooks - you can just forget about it.
I've concluded that a Mac running Fusion is a virtual island. It's terribly frustrating. I don't have any experience with other programs, but I'm definitely going to try Parallels next.
 better program compatibility with SAS September 9, 2007
Gomakeitreal (San Francisco, CA United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The main program that i want to run on windows is SAS. It is usable on parallel, but not well supported. (sometimes some problems, and some feature not supported.) After i tried it on fusion, it was pretty easy for me to decide to go for fusion, because it looks like it is running natively (other than the speed, common for all virtualization programs) If program complicated as SAS can be so well supported, i have reason to believe fusion has better program support in general.
VM Ware on Linux and Windows user September 20, 2007
M. Sewtz (BROOKLYN, NY United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've been using VMWare Fusion now for about a month on a 9 months old MacBook, and I'm very impressed and extremely satisfied. I have no experience with Parallels, so I can't compare the two. I've been using VMWare on Windows and Linux for many years now as part of my job as a Software Developer, so I expected VMWare Fusion to perform well, but still I was positively surprised by how well it performs. The Unity feature that allows running my Windows apps directly on the Mac OS X desktop works very well. But the key feature for me is the ability to actually run my BootCamp partition in VMWare while in Mac OS X. This gives me the flexibility to choose to run Windows natively whenever I don't need Mac OS X, and to run Windows inside Mac OS X whenever I have that booted up (which is most of the time).
VERY EASY TO INSTALL! January 15, 2008
G. F. THOMAS (Lebanon,mo)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I installed this program yesterday and it works better than I expected. It will let me switch back to Leopard or drag photos from Windows to Leopard with ease. I purchase it so I could use some of my software and programs I had on my PC that are not available with apple. I even can use mail programs I had on my old PC on Windows XP. So far no conflicts between the two programs at all.
It is working exactly as described on the internet and I am very satisfied with the results. Like I said so far I give it a 5 star rating!!!!
Beware if you plan to use your Boot Camp partition November 9, 2007
DJ OZ (Oregon)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
I could not get Fusion 1.0 (or 1.1) to install and run my Apple Boot Camp 1.4 partition of Windows XP Home (SP2), on either my up-to-date MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro. I spent 10 hours working with VMware tech support but they were no help and it was a complete waste of time, and endless Windows Activations. I then downloaded and installed the Parallels Desktop 3 trial and it ran the Boot Camp virtual machine perfectly. It was up and running in about 4 minutes flat. I plan on returning Fusion and buying Parallels. Fusion might be ok to install a new virtual machine, but beware if you plan to use your Boot Camp partition, at least until VMware sorts out the crinks.
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