Hi there, First, this is not true about fusion entirely. Yes, a lot of people were let go from the team as a part of the Dell EMC merger if memory serves. The product is still being developed and sold. It’s also very good and I use it heavily and find it totally accessible. So yes, I would spend the money if it were me. Parallels is not an option do to accessibility issues and virtual box supposedly has a good command line interface and such but I haven’t used it personally.
As for the drive question, a Fusion drive is much faster than a rotating drive and an SSD drive is faster than a fusion. Fusion uses An sad drive combined with a rotating drive. The stuff frequently accessed lives on the SSD for fast recall and writing and the less frequently used code is stored on the rotating portion. When you access the rotating portion it’s slower until it moves to the SSD and so forth. A pure SSD drive stores everything in a near instantly available form using solid state circuits rather than 1960s rotating magnetic platter technology. Fusion is a good choice, you’ll get a nic healthy boost in performance. The stats I have read on SSD drives indicate they are 30 to 50 times faster than their rotating counterparts. Fusion should over average use and time fall somewhere in-between the two. Enjoy that new iMac, that’s a great platform. > On Jul 10, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Joshua Tubbs <ori...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > On Thursday I will be receiving my new iMac. It is the 2.8 processor with a 2 > TB fusion Drive and 16 gigs of RAM. In line with this new Mac, I want > performance and speed over space, though I did choose a 2 TB drive because it > is The best of both worlds. > My concern is fusion. VMware fusion. Last I heard, it will no longer be in > development anymore due to most of their staff being laid off. With this in > mind, keeping in mind the fact that I do plan on upgrading to macOS Sierra > when it comes out, is VMware fusion a viable solution after El Capitan? Also, > for those that have fusion drives, how do you like them? Is it better then > standard drive you get by default? > Thanks. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
