Mac or PC?

Why decide when you can have both.

You've all seen those funny Mac vs. PC commercials that make fun of the PC character. They make you think it's one or the other. But in reality, with Apple’s switch to Intel processors, you can have both with a little program called VMWare Fusion.

Savvy Mac users are probably thinking "Oh, right, that’s what Parallels does. If Parallels comes with my Mac, why should I buy Fusion?"

You can do some crazy things with Fusion.

Here are some of our favorites:

FLIP IT! Wish you could have a Mac but have one or two Windows applications that you can’t live without? You don’t have to be locked in anymore. Outlook, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Project, AutoCAD, Solidworks…you name it. They all can run in a Windows virtual machine on VMware Fusion.

TWO AT A TIME! With virtualization you are running, in effect, two computers at the same time when you run Windows on your Mac. That can take some horsepower. VMware Fusion’s mature technology means much less CPU overhead. As Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal noticed, “VMware Fusion has a much smaller impact on the Mac’s overall performance [than Parallels.]” With VMware Fusion, Outlook in your Windows virtual machine doesn’t slow down your Safari session running on Mac OS X.

SHARE THE RAM! VMware pioneered memory page file sharing. So running a VM in VMware Fusion takes up much less of your Mac’s memory than other virtualization products.

DON'T EVEN NOTICE! VMware Fusion’s Unity feature lets your Mac treat Windows applications like its own. Windows applications show up in the on the bottom of the screen and you can even minimize Windows apps down to the Dock too.

GOTTA HAVE USB 2.0! Got a GPS unit that doesn’t support Mac? With VMware Fusion, just load the software in Windows and plug the USB cable into your Mac. Blackberry, USB VOIP softphones, webcams, scanners, printers, all of the above. You can still use them with a Windows VM. Just because you want to switch, doesn’t mean you should have to say goodbye to near and dear peripherals.

IT'S AN OS PARTY! Linux, Solaris, Windows from 3.1 through Vista Ultimate x64. 32-bit or 64-bit. VMware Fusion can run it. In fact, VMware Fusion can run over 60 operating systems on your Mac.