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Kev Orng said 1:22PM on 9-24-2008
I'm still a little foggy on what makes this bundle "Green". Aside from the banner colour, of course.
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Simon Arch said 10:39AM on 9-25-2008
I'm guessing it's because if you run Windows in a VM like Parallels you don't need a second computer. It's a bit of a stretch, honestly.
krye said 1:22PM on 9-24-2008
Funny. Last night I got the email. It was 8 apps for $34.99. Now it's 9 apps for $49.99. Looks like they added the $80 parallels for only $15. If I wasn't so impressed with Fusion 2.0 I might have actually considered this.
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Neil said 1:22PM on 9-24-2008
Nice to see a developer using these bundle sales to generate income rather than having some middleman take a huge cut off the top.
If more developers did this they could easily kill off MacHeist & Co.
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Jason said 1:39PM on 9-24-2008
With Parallels bundled at $15, it's not hard to imagine that Apple's "brick" product is going to be built-in virtualization for individual Windows programs. Perhaps Parallels is aware of this and making an attempt to increase their user-base before the product is rendered irrelevant.
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dorian said 2:38PM on 9-24-2008
the idea of running virtual native with the OS seems such a bad move on apple's part. i would think this more of way to compete with VMFusion. I've seen Parallel's bundle a few times with other apps.
Tomahawk said 4:25PM on 9-24-2008
I highly doubt that the "Brick" would allow you this, if it did they would wait until Snow Leopard to release such a feature and last I checked there is no guestimated date for 10.6, but the "Brick" is rumored to com out next month. Besides that the complexity of virtualizing a windows system that is there to an application is extremely hard to do, just look at how many products are out there today that can do this. the only one I know of is WINE, an even that only works on you most basic applications. Quite honestly I think the only company to release something that might do such a task, and do it well is VMWare since they acquired Thinstall, which essentially does the same thing for the windows side.
Kris Hunt said 2:04PM on 9-24-2008
Kev: I was wondering the same thing. This is all I can find:
> PageSender: Go paperless by faxing or emailing anything you can print. Save on paper, ink, fax machines and TIME!
Question: Why would anyone need a special application to email anything you can print when you can print to PDF and email with OS X's built-in functionality?
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Kev Orng said 4:06PM on 9-24-2008
I had similar thoughts. I've been paperless for like five years now, without any third party apps. Just needed the motivation of printer cartridges being more expensive than printers! Suddenly the need for a hard copy seems so September 10th.
Yep, the paperless one is the only "green" app in there, and it's raison d'etre is pretty dubious.
Reclusive Monkey said 3:44PM on 9-24-2008
Another very underwhelming bundle. As a new Mac user, were these ever tempting? Virtualbox now gives you free virtualisation, so that must be hurting Parallels and VMFusion.
...an app for saving and opening files? Seriously?
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Kev Orng said 4:08PM on 9-24-2008
Yes, there have been some very tempting ones. This one, and the one I saw a month or two back, were underwhelming. Wait for MacHeist; their last two bundles have had like 8 out of ten apps that I could really use: and the other two, I could see why other people could really use them. But nothing like this "email a doc instead of printing it" BS I'm seeing here.
Danny said 5:37PM on 9-24-2008
VmWare Fusion 2.0 is so much better than Parallels!
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CognizantKid said 2:20AM on 9-25-2008
I think the "green" angle they're going for is that these programs eliminate the need to have dedicated Windows and Mac machines. Thus saving electricity and materials, theoretically.
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Matt2k said 2:22AM on 9-25-2008
Real Question, Not Being Smart, Why is VmWare Fusion better than Parallels, I Don't Have Either, Also I understand that Parallels 4.0 is coming out soon, is this like that iPhone app Jaadu VNC, that cost $5 but when You update it the next day it's really $25
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Ramone said 12:51PM on 9-25-2008
I think the "green" label is putting prices on applications that do the same thing as free applications. Who would pay for a program that allows you to email documents? Who would pay for a program to convert docx files?
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Mark S said 3:47PM on 9-25-2008
In that case, who would pay for an application that lets you virtualize an OS? There's a free alternative to Parallels called Virtual Box from Sun that works rather well. I personally prefer VMware Fusion because it offers the best support for 64-bit OSes.
I think the key in the free vs. commercial/shareware argument is: what are you getting? Which has better features? Which offers support when you need it? Which works better for your needs? Which is more reliable or robust?