VMWare Fusion 3.1 beta available

Honestly, the update that struck me first and that I care about the most so far? It doesn't ask for an admin password every time I start up my Boot Camp partition. Honestly I can't believe it took this long to fix that. Otherwise, not really seeing too much different. If I wanted to play games I would restart into Boot Camp.

BTW, if you like to get Parallels with a very BIG discount, there is a good bundle from MacUpdate which includes Parallels 5.

Here the short link: http://bit.ly/9M59l9

@snugs- what they're saying is they'll give you free updates within this version for 12 month.

if 4.0 comes out is 6 months, you don't get an update free because it's not 3.x. If in 13 months 3.5 comes out and you're on 3.4, you don't get the update because it's out of the 12 month window.

so for 12 months you get all the 3.x updates you can handle. Pretty standard practice, see OS X 10.5.7 vs 10.6

I'm not sure what you mean. Did you pay 79.99 PLUS extra? I know the price is 79.99 for VM Ware Fusion 3.0, and 3.1 is free. Also, for those who had version 2.x, the upgrade prices was $39.99 --- It also came out October 2009, about 5 months ago. I don't think 4.0 will come out any time soon (if anyone knows please post!) --- but it's no different than buying Vista and then having to buy Windows 7 a few months (or years for some people, or even weeks for some people too).

hey guys! Check this out from the full release notes:

"Mac OS X 10.6.3 performance optimization"

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/12165-102-4-12442/releasenotes_fusion_31_b.html

FTA: "you can also use your existing Fusion 3 serial if you already own the product."

VMware doesn't charge for point upgrades (3.0 to 3.1 or 3.1 to 3.9999) - They as well as most software companies only charge for incremental upgrades 2.x to 3.x, or 3.x to 4.x, etc.)

I switched to VMWare Fusion 3 and I couldn't be happier. It is feels more like a Mac program and more stable than Parallels.

I switched to Parallels 5 last night and I couldn't be happier. When moving VM environments around and they finally work the way I need them, its hard for me to look back unless there are major improvements on the other platform.

Mmm, maybe they just want to keep MacTech busy doing more benchmarks.

I have Fusion v2.x Is it possible to boot from a USB stick in this 3 or this new beta? I can't do this in v2.

I'll have to give this a spin when I get home.