Back to Parallels

It was a short stint I guess, but after only a week or so of playing around with VMware Fusion on my Mac, I’ve gone and run back to Parallels.

Parallels recently released version 4 of their desktop software and it’s basically the best of both virtual machine worlds.

One gripe I had while running VMware Fusion was that access to my Mac desktop via shared folders was incredibly slow. It took forever for a folder to open and when it finally did, accessing its contents wasn’t exactly what I would call immediate. On top of that, the speed and performance issues with VMware Fusion while running simultaneous applications in Windows and in Mac was just too slow and frustrating to deal with.

Parallels handles speed and performance a lot better in version 4 and I’m glad I switched back. Parallels also made the virtual machines easier to handle and easier to configure individually.

So why did I switch to Parallels? So that I could run Windows with AnyDVD on it and rip Wall-E to my harddrive. Yay. And it worked. Flawlessly.