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| From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $51.41
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Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Format: Cd
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: VMFUSMBX2
Model: VMFUSMBX2
UPC: 717103140372
EAN: 0717103140372
ASIN: B000UK3GVA
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Set up was a nightmare... September 21, 2007
Big Bear (Chicopee, MA United States)
25 out of 33 found this review helpful
After reading several reviews I decided to order this software and after 2 days of frustration I gave up. I am pretty computer saavy so I am at a loss to explain my difficulties but will describe them for you in case you have similar problems. The setup would only get so far and then would freeze which would force me to force quit the application and I would have to go through the set up again. Other times the set up would complete but when I tried to suspend it, it froze and I had to force quit it again which would bring me back to the install. After doing this (literally) 15 or 20 times I gave up. I dont know if its a compatibility issue or some quirk in the software but with a company with as good a reputation as VM I would have thought that their support would have been better. After sending 3 emails and never getting a response and 2 frustrating phone calls I called it a day. I'm sure that for some this is excellent software but I couldnt recommend it based on my experiences.
 Very happy! November 2, 2007
skunktrain (So. California, USA)
25 out of 29 found this review helpful
I tried Parallels (still have a copy, unused) and I preferred Fusion. Everything works wonderfully, and Windows 2000 is incredibly snappy on my Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Mac Mini with 2 GB of RAM, and with Tiger (OS 10.4). No complaints, except that trying to get the Boot Camp partition to run in Fusion is futile. I don't even attempt to do it anymore.
Other than the Boot Camp problems, it's really working great for me!
Note: Fusion worked very well on my previous Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, OS 10.4) but a bit slower. Windows 2000 ran fine as soon as it was up and running, but switching back and forth from Mac OS to Windows was a bit draggy. But still, it was quite workable. Windows XP was not so great, though, so while it will run in an Intel Core Duo, it's not really a fun experience unless your Mac has at least 2 GB of RAM. But 1 GB *will* work with XP. Just slowly.
Awesome... can only get better! September 25, 2007
Lal (NYC)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Having finally crossed the border into MAC country after being a PC citizen for many many years its not so easy to give up the affliction to some of the PC programs so I picked up VMware Fusion & let me just say that it lets me have the best of both worlds. I read many reviews on Parallels & Fusion but decided to go with Fusion. I believe both programs are equally good. The installation was smooth as can be... I loaded up Windows XP Pro & voila! I had Windows purring away on my MAC! The best part of it is that the experience of using windows is actually more pleasant with the 'suspend' feature of Fusion which lets u literally take a snapshot of all the running programs under Windows & put it in a 'suspend' mode so the next time, one can just 'resume' where you left off!
 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.
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