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Re: Parallels vs VMWare Fusion vs Crossover vs BootCamp

lsteens — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:18:10 -0000

Re: Imac/Fusion/Quicken
I was able to get Quicken 2005 for PC up and running on my mac through XP Pro using Fusion. I updated to Quicken 2009 and now cannot open 09. Any suggestions?

FYI - I attempted to partition my mac using bootcamp and dumped everything twice. I had Apple support on the phone and followed his instructions the second time. I had to take my mac to the Genius Bar at the Apple store to reinstall everything the second time. I had the dreaded blinking folder with the questionmark in it and could not reinstall the operating system at home.

I tried Quicken mac 2008 and managed to transfer eight years of files from my PC Quicken 2005 but could not really understand the Mac version. I will go back to Quicken 2005 but if anyone has a suggestion for why the 2009 does not open, I would sure like the help.

Re: Parallels vs VMWare Fusion vs Crossover vs BootCamp

Dale — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:59:06 -0000

I was using VMware Fusion 1.0 on my intel Mac for about 4 months before trashing the partition just before installing Leopard. I didn't want conflicts and I had read there might be some with the old Bootcamp and Leopard. I loved Fusion 1.0 and it seemed to work seamlessly.

I just went to install the newest version VMware Fusion 1.1 and noticed in the instructions that it seems you don't have to install it onto a Bootcamp Partition as I did with the Beta version. How have you installed your VMware? Is it safer to install VMware onto a Bootcamp partition? I'm lost when it comes to these kind of things.

Re: Parallels vs VMWare Fusion vs Crossover vs BootCamp

John Lilly — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:10:34 -0000

yeah, i haven't tried that out in a while -- i found it pretty painful to use before, but that was with my ppc mac -- but it was more the UI that wasn't working for me than the speed...

Re: Parallels vs VMWare Fusion vs Crossover vs BootCamp

Fred — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:59:22 -0000

Regarding spreadsheets on OSX, have you ever given Neooffice/J a shot? Okay, it's Java, but on my Intel Mac it runs very snappy. Much better than the X11 port of OpenOffice, of course ;)

The experience with NeoOffice can only be overcome by a native OpenOffice port.

Re: Parallels vs VMWare Fusion vs Crossover vs BootCamp

John's Dad — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:35:19 -0000

OK. Hokey name, but thought just putting John Lilly would be confusing, as would just Dad, so there you go.

First time commenting on your blog, but I've had the same experience with Parallels, VMWare beta, Crossover and BootCamp. Parallels just works and is faster than my new Dell Latitude D620 (Core Duo)at running XP. That's beyond amazing, especially when I think back to how dog slow Virtual PC was (is). It's really a different experience, for those few times when I have to have a PC at home. Seems like there are fewer and fewer reasons not to have a Mac (although I admit to never needing a reason not to buy one!).