New Parallels Beta adds support for iPhone, other enhancements

Well, back to Parallels from VMWare again! I always found that Parallels ran better for me than VMWare.

40.00 to try out and then 79.00 to buy it again. parallels 4 lyfe!

My only complaint (and maybe this is fixed now?) is being able to run parallels Vista and boot into vista if I need the extra performance without the activation issue.

I use "extra performance" with a grain of salt.

Parallels is a great product and has generally been in front of VMware with features (VMware, I'm looking at cloning machines specifically here!). VMware just has the corporate edge, to be able to take any VMDK from any other VMware implementation and run it is a major benefit. Right now, I run both in 'parallel' and while the pre-order $40 deal is good, but I'd rather wait to see what comes of say Parallels v4 and VMware v2.

Yep Fusion is for me the best app.
I have a bloody fast 8 core mac pro 8gb 4x 750, raid0 and raid1 and no complaints with fusion...
Especially I installed the Ultimate vista 64 bit with no problems at all.... I wish only that the graphics would be faster but hey it's a beta now.. better pre-order! Cause it's 40 $ at this moment I think.....

Yeah, if Parallels USB 2.0 would actually work as advertised, the iPhone would have worked out of the box and would not need a special announcement.

I switched to VMWare instead of upgrading to V3.x and couldn't be happier with my choice. Finally, things work as advertised, my virtual machine can access two CPUs AND I can finally use virtualization without having to see all my apps getting swapped out as with Parallels.

I have full respect for what Parallels did, but VMWare does ship a more mature solution.

I am another Parallels user who has been seriously tempted by VMware Fusion due to (of all things) the drop shadow, hiding-the-toolbar and Exposé support.

Do not get me wrong; Parallels works well, but I found few performance differences between the two in my testing and so it came down to usability/UI polish, and Fusion had that down better than Parallels. If they have drop shadows and proper Exposé now, I may well stick with Parallels instead of pre-ordering VMware.

I've been a parallels user since the start but I have to say I was almost tempted away by the expose feature in VMware. Now I don't have to be :)

I was using VMWare Fusion's unity for the Expose feature. It seems that i am switching back and forth between the two

Who cares about iPhone support. Why would you want windows to have anything to do with your iPhone when you have a MAC already?