For the same price as one Parallels license, you get 3 for Fusion, which was important to me because we have 3 Macs in the house. The big thing for me was that the licensing is way better for Fusion than Parallels. Fusion doesn't come with the extra app installs, so when you install the OS, it's just that, the bare bones OS, with the appropriate drives already installed. This shows up whether you've got the VM turned on or not and it will launch it into Unity Mode by default, which basically brings up just the app you're looking for and not the entire Windows Desktop (Parallels does a similar thing). Instead of the Windows apps showing up in Launchpad, they are segregated off into a single icon that turns into the 'Start Menu' at the very top right of OS X next to the Wireless Icon.
The integration isn't as nice, but it's still a very nice product. Last time I checked it was around $70 for a single license.įusion is basically Parallels, except by VMware.
A final note, the licensing on Parallels sucks. For a lot of people this is a bonus, but I considered it just extra resources that I didn't want being eaten up in the OS. Parallels installs some random third party software within Windows by default for Ease of Access (at least on Windows 8) such as Start8. I personally didn't like that, but to each their own. Parallels is a solid product, they have very good integration between OS X and Windows and all your apps are available "Natively" from OS X (I use Natively in Quotes because the apps pop up under Launchpad). But you do get better game support within Bootcamp than any of the other options. I honestly found the having to reboot thing really obnoxious and not worth it for me for how little I used Windows. You also get the added benefit of Snapshots with both Parallels and Fusion, so you can take a snapshot of your Windows installation, install something on Windows and if it totally breaks your install, you can roll back in about 5-10 minutes.īootcamp is great, but you have to reboot to get into Windows. However, with Parallels and Fusion, if you decide that you hate Windows and want to uninstalls it, or you want to try something new, getting rid of it is as easy as deleting a file.
The big pro of Bootcamp is that Windows gets all the resources of the machine, where with Parallels and Fusion, it has to share the resources with OS X. Here are my thoughts on it:įirst off, let's cover what each of these does:īootcamp installs to a physical partition on your Hard Drive, Both Parallels and Fusion create a Virtual Drive on top of your existing hard drive, that you then install Windows onto. So I've used Parallels and Fusion pretty extensively over the last couple years and Bootcamp to a point.
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