Well, after a lengthy compare between Parallels and Fusion I bought fusion and I'm giving on parallels.
Just the other day I'm using parallels 2.5 and every time, I open a citrix window to access a server I clock out, and it sits there with a Spinning Beachball of Death for about 30 seconds. Very frustrating when you're trying to manage several servers at a given time and for what ever reason I'm getting the SBoD.
No such issues with Fusion, far more stable faster (hasn't crashed once where as parallels is frequent). Now some people may say its a new install of windows and so a fresher copy will be faster an such but I used vmware's converter to conver the parallels vm to fusion's vm, so any problems with the parallels install would have been carried over to Fusion's
While I'm sure much of the response from the parallels faithful will be of indignation and "don't let the door hit you on the way out" type of responses. I post this as a hope that Parallels gets their act together. I paid 80 dollars for something that used to work, now a couple of updates later it fails to. I haven't even tried upgrading to 3.0 not worth the risk given all of the posts here.
Just the other day I'm using parallels 2.5 and every time, I open a citrix window to access a server I clock out, and it sits there with a Spinning Beachball of Death for about 30 seconds. Very frustrating when you're trying to manage several servers at a given time and for what ever reason I'm getting the SBoD.
No such issues with Fusion, far more stable faster (hasn't crashed once where as parallels is frequent). Now some people may say its a new install of windows and so a fresher copy will be faster an such but I used vmware's converter to conver the parallels vm to fusion's vm, so any problems with the parallels install would have been carried over to Fusion's
While I'm sure much of the response from the parallels faithful will be of indignation and "don't let the door hit you on the way out" type of responses. I post this as a hope that Parallels gets their act together. I paid 80 dollars for something that used to work, now a couple of updates later it fails to. I haven't even tried upgrading to 3.0 not worth the risk given all of the posts here.