Recently, Nikon fired off this French ad comparing the Coolpix2100 camera to the larger and more supple Coolpix3100. Meanwhile, a female journalist friend of mine had, well, an “experience” at a VMWare user’s group meeting.
Ironically, it’s one of the biggest decisions you make when you get a Mac: How should I run Windows on it? Parallels or Fusion? An exhaustive battery of benchmarks by MacTech reveals a clear winner.
Ok, this is even cooler than we expected: a Nokia N800, loaded with VMWare’s MVP hypervisor, is seen here running Windows CE and Android, at the same time. This is a big deal!
VMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualisation software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of software that will interface between handsets’ hardware and operating system, allowing for a standardised development platform across any handsets that include it. What does this mean for regular consumers? For now, not much. If the tech finds enough support for hardware vendors, though, the consequences could be major.
To those who’d rather run two OSes at once than dual boot with Boot Camp, VMware has released the 2.0 version of Fusion. It includes over 100 new features, including the option to load Windows programs without a Windows desktop, a Time Machinesque backup utility, and completely mirrored file sharing independent of OS. There’s also support for 32-bit and 64-bit OSes, 4-core systems, Bluetooth, DirectX 9.0c and up to 10 displays. Yeah, we pretty much just pasted specs there. But boy, were we excited doing it. [VMware via TGDaily]
Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it’s a review of VMWare’s Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply: Parallels has more features than Fusion…But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall.
Jacqui at Ars notes that Parallels isn’t taking this competitor lying down. They just released a new beta that supports Mac Expose window swooshing of Windows programs. [VMWareAllThingsD]
