VMWare Fusion beta round up

How come they say it runs fast? I tried the first beta and it was horribly slow, probably due to the debug instructions the app itself warns me about.

I found it incredibly slower compared to Parallels... but considering it's a beta I didn't mind about it - but hearing it's fast makes me wonder.

does anyone know if this new fusion beta can boot from a existing bootcamp partition/ installation?
otherwise i'm not interested. unless it really runs significantly faster than parallels.

Noshtzy:
I think he meant that it's exciting in the 'mac can do it all' way, or maybe the 'not only do I not need a dedicated windows machine/partition, but I have options' way.

As one of those users that switched with the intel platform, I find this exciting for the above reasons. Not to mention that you assume he meant running just windows on a mac, not running ANY operating system on a mac through virtualization. That's the real beauty of this, being able to do it all (and, sometimes, it's the fun of just messing with another OS; like trying out OpenStep to see OS X's legacy or checking out the latest Mandriva release.)

Not to step on your trailing line Scott, but if using Windows on a Mac is what gets Mac users excited, then maybe I'm not drinking the same kool aid you are.

Here's what I want to know:

What will VMWare Fusion cost?

Parallels is lovely, but if Fusion is free (like all the other VMWare consumer products), game over.

Now that Parallels came up with those amazing features in their latest release VMWare really needs to come up with something cool.
I did a test run with it and I wasn't even able to install the VMWare tools because you couldn't navigate to the CD drive.

Now that Parallels can use Boot Camp partitions, has drag'n'drop, too, and this frickin' awesome coherence mode, and Apple+ACVX key mapping I'll propably stay with it... The only thing missing is USB2.0 and 3D graphics acceleration support.

Can it boot the boot camp partition? Parallels can.