Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Windows 8.1 on Mac Date: 24 Mar 2015 15:12:06 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net oZgpqVmBTwVTV082j0Vk0wUjSETfLdtKPqDfd/lr13e5FKhCvs Cancel-Lock: sha1:KO8ZV4iLxxKFvCrR/VY2AUNcyTQ= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:72002 On 2015-03-24, Ymir wrote: > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: > >> On 2015-03-23, Ymir wrote: >> > I've read various online reviews, but I thought I'd also ask here >> > whether anyone has opinions on the relative strengths of Parallels and >> > VMFusion for Virtualizing windows (and linux) on a Mac. >> > >> > This is for someone who would be using windows fairly infrequently, and >> > isn't particularly concerned about gaming. >> >> Both are great at it. They tend to leap frog each other every couple >> years in terms of features; but both are roughly the same and run >> Windows at almost full speed for most operations. Through the years I >> have preferred VMware Fusion because on the whole they seem to have a >> bit better support and a better handle on their bugs. >> >> While there is some 3D acceleration support, it typically requires >> closer access to hardware than virtualization solutions provide to >> perform well, which is why you wouldn't want to use a virtual machine to >> do that sort of thing. For everything else, though, it's usually >> downright zippy. >> >> Note: You do need to have sufficient free RAM to allow for the virtual >> machine and guest operating system (Windows) to run well. If you are >> running the latest Mac OS X (10.10 - Yosemite), I recommend having more >> than 4GB of RAM installed - 8GB or higher would be preferable - for best >> results. > > Thanks everyone for your responses. > > RAM shouldn't be an issue (32 GB), and nothing I'll be doing requires > much speed wise. I work with opentype fonts, and need to verify that > they work properly under windows and major unices as well as Mac, but > don't want to constantly reboot using Boot Camp. > > What I'm taking away from this discussion is that either will likely > meet my needs. It sounds that way to me. As others have mentioned, if you want to do it cheaper, VirtualBox is a good option as well (although more complicated to set up and use, and without some of the nicer bells and whistles of the others). -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR