woot! New Parallels update. I can start my testing again

[M A V I C]

This whole Boot Camp vs Parallels vs VMWare Fusion thing has been dragging on and on. I did a ton of tests but it was so difficult to find tests I could run in all three solutions. Plus I was doing XP vs Vista testing in all three as well.

Then I got Vista SP1 and it didn't run with Parallels. It seemed like at any given point, if I ran the tests they wouldn't yield up-to-date or realistic results. Plus I got really busy with work.

An update for Parallels came out today http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/212...ls-desktop

So I've run all the updates, got everything patched... and am freezing all the software as of today for testing.

Already got some initial tests done.

[tuqqer]

There are a lot of Fusion fans. But I've never, ever had one glitch with Parallels so far. I'm about to see if QuickBooks Windows' networking feature works with it.

[M A V I C]

Are you using Vista or XP?

All afternoon I've been running test in Vista Ultimate SP1 and thus far Parallels is beating Fusion. I'm somewhat surprised because my results a few months ago in XP were the other way around. Those tests were also run with 2GB of RAM, and now I'm testing with 4GB of RAM.

[mattkime]

Now, have you started testing the Fusion 2 beta?

[guitarist]

Welcome to the WindowsResource Forum!

[M A V I C]

Nope, not gonna do the beta to start. But I've decided to divide it up into small sections of tests, and in a duplicatable way. So then when the Fusion 2.0 final comes out I can test it.

[tuqqer]

Are you using Vista or XP?

We're running XP