Aloha Folks, I have both Parallels and VMWare. My setup is now a MacBook with 2gb of RAM but before that, I had only 1gb. I was a Paralells user from the start, I even bought their product before owning a intel mac just for taking advantadge of the discount.
So what I have to say? Well, VMware is running circles around parallels here. I switched from parallels to vmware because my parallels setup was taking as long as 5 minutes to boot, once it even took half an hour to boot. VMWare is a snap, it all works fine. Also vmware runs more systems than parallels. For example, I am able to run Haiku on vmware while in parallels it won't boot or have network when it boot at all. I spen't a lot in paralles and I don't regret it, paralles served me fine thru version 1 and 2 (current version 3 is bad for me). I am tankful for VMWare to come to my rescue when parallels 3 became unusable for me and now I am a happy user. I think a virtualization tool is a must have for any developer, you can do more than run windows. For example, you can run multiple virtual machines and thus work on client server solution using your own virtual LAN. You can run Linux, Windows and thus test your cross platform solution running on real OS. I believe buying either parallels or vmware is a good investment. I'd go for vmware and minimum of 2gb of RAM. Cheers andre _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution