Comments on: VMWare vs Parallels

By: lani

lani — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:05:07 +0000

Despite that it’s ancient, it’s still running faster than Parallels on my machine. If it did not keep up with my needs, I would switch – but so far, I’ve had no problems and quite happy with it.

By: Grant Schroff

Grant Schroff — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:00:24 +0000

what? i guess ive never looked at updates as a bad thing? those games you play.. they dont get updates? updates usually means upgrading.. not downgrading.. vmware doesnt update their software because they dont care about it.. what youre running is going to be ancient in 6 months

By: lani

lani — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:20:56 +0000

I have both Parallels and VM Ware installed – and I have to say Parallels does the dual monitors unlike VM Ware. But I’m on a 24″ iMac so Dual Monitors is a bit redundant.

For myself, VM Ware allows me to play my Windows 3D games quite easily on unity without wasting resources. I like that I can assign a single core and run at 512 mb memory – again, no lag and no distortions.

I’m also a bit perturbed by Parallels constant updates, where VM Ware has been stable since I installed.

By: Grant Schroff

Grant Schroff — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:40:58 +0000

parallels runs xp a lot faster for me.. AND i can run dual monitors