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VMware Fusion 3

From: VMWare

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

11 reviews
Sales Rank: 41

Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4

MPN: FUS3-ENG-M-CP
Model: FUS3-ENG-M-CP
UPC: 814223009173
EAN: 0814223009173
ASIN: B002Q72JB8

Release Date: October 27, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Features:

•	VMware Fusion 3 provides the ultimate Windows experience on the Mac
•	Optimized for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard
•	64-bit native and advanced 3D graphics
•	Windows 7 support including Windows Aero and Flip 3D animations
•	Ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows to transfer your entire PC to your Mac wirelessly or using an Ethernet cable

VMware Fusion 3 is the Best Way to Run Windows on Your Mac.

Using a Mac doesn't mean abandoning your Windows applications and devices. Ditch your PC and safely run your favorite Windows programs alongside Mac applications, while continuing to use your Windows-only devices on your Mac.

Move Your Entire PC with Ease

Effortless Migration--No Cable Required
Wouldn't it be great if you could use your new Mac, yet have access to your old Windows PC, without the clunky hardware? Wouldn't you like to make the most of your Windows software investment on your new Mac? With the built-in Migration Assistant for Windows, VMware Fusion 3 can convert your entire PC and bring it over to your Mac in a few easy steps, giving you access to your Windows applications, documents and other files--whenever you need them. Just install a simple application on your PC, connect it to your Mac with a cable or wirelessly, and VMware Fusion will guide you through the rest. You can now recycle your old PC and still have access to your old applications and files, directly from the Mac you love.

Windows with Mac Simplicity

The Mac Way
Designed from the ground up for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, VMware Fusion lets you run your Windows applications--side-by-side with your Mac applications--the Mac way.

Seamless Integration
Instantly launch your favorite Windows applications directly from your Dock or the Apple menu bar at any time. Easily switch between apps and minimize them to your Dock--just like you would with Mac apps.

Run your Windows applications side-by-side with your Mac applications. Click to enlarge.

Instantly launch your favorite Windows applications directly from your Dock or the Apple menu bar. Click to enlarge.

More Mac-like than ever
VMware Fusion comes preloaded with new powerful built-in features to help you run Windows applications even more like Mac applications. The new always-on applications menu lets you access your Windows apps with a click--directly from the Apple menu bar, and the new resizable preview window lets you keep an eye on your virtual machines. The new full screen menu bar gives you complete control over your virtual machine and can be moved to any side of the screen to make guest user interfaces--such as taskbars and menu bars--more accessible.

Windows Powerhouse

Maximum Performance
With a highly optimized 64-bit engine, advanced memory and CPU management technology, run the most demanding Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds.

Advanced 3D Graphics
Play Full HD videos and run your favorite 3D Windows games better than ever with best-in-class OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 graphics support--all without rebooting.

Ultimate Windows Experience
Get the ultimate Windows experience on the Mac and make the most of Windows 7 with Windows Aero and Flip 3D animations.

Displays Galore
Display Windows and Mac OS X applications any way you want: side-by-side on your main display, in full screen, or across multiple displays connected to your Mac.

Peace of Mind

Protect your Windows Investment
Make the most of your Windows software investment and Windows-only devices by continuing to use the applications and devices you need on the Mac you love.

We've Got You Covered
Automatic snapshots allow you to roll Windows back to a safe state if something goes wrong. For added protection, we've included 18 months of free email support (English only) and a 12-month complimentary subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus.

Company You Trust
Built by the undisputed virtualization leader, VMware Fusion has won over a dozen awards for its unparalleled excellence.

Play Full HD videos and run your favorite 3D Windows games. Click to enlarge.

Make the most of Windows 7 with Windows Aero and Flip 3D animations. Click to enlarge.

Features

Optimized for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard
Highly optimized 64-bit engine, advanced memory and CPU management for maximum performance
Advanced 3D graphics with support for OpenGL2.1 and DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3
Support for Windows Aero and Flip 3D animations to get the ultimate Windows experience on the Mac
New ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows to transfer your entire PC to your Mac wirelessly or using a cable
More than 50 new features

What's differentiates VMware Fusion 3 from other solutions
VMware Fusion is designed from the ground up for the Mac and preloaded with powerful new features to help you run Windows applications even more like Mac applications. Engineered in California, VMware Fusion is the best way to run Windows on your Mac.

VMware Fusion 3 is recommended for:
Home users, students and business professionals who are looking for the fastest, easiest and most reliable way to run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on their Mac without rebooting.

Technical specifications

Windows Aero support
DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.0 support
OpenGL 2.1 3D support
Over 140 guest OSes supported: Windows XP, Vista and 7, Red Hat Linux 9.0, Ubuntu 9.04 and more!
64-bit Native
Multilingual software (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese)

What's in the box?

VMware Fusion 3.0 Software CD
Link to over 10 Video Tutorial
Quickstart Guide
VMware stickers
18-months of free email-support (English only)
12-month complimentary subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus.

Product Description
With a highly optimized 64-bit engine, advanced memory and CPU management technology, VMware Fusion 3 runs the most demanding Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting. With over 50 new features and a new ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows, it’s never been easier to run Windows on your Mac.

Customer Reviews:

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VMFUSION VS NATIVE WINDOWS 7 November 19, 2009
Sleepless In St. Louis (Mo)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have been very pleased with the performance of VMFUSION 3 on my Mac Pro.

The Mac has Dual Quad core Xeon 2.8Ghz processors with 4 cores and 8 GB allocated to the Win 7 VM. I am using the std video card that came with the MAC which is a pretty decent card. Drives on both machines are SATA, same brand and models. The PC is using a high end ASUS P6T board, Intel I7 920 Quad-Core processor, 6GB DDR3 RAM and an inexpensive (49.00 on sale) 512mb video card.

-------->MAC->PC
Processor 7.1 7.4
RAM 7.9 7.5
Graphics 2.0 3.7
Gaming Graphics 3.4 4.3
Primary HD 5.9 5.8

Either machine could have the video card upgraded to get better numbers for gaming, but I did not have any problem with Aero on my Mac and am happy with the performance.

BF2 did not run well in my XP VM, frame rate was too slow. I decided to run Red Alert 3 as a native Mac app after I saw it was avail. As far as I am concerned, I can run a Boot Camp XP to run my games in and get full performance.

With the flexibility that Fusion has given me, I am very happy with the product and the performance. I am a professional developer, not a professional gamer and as long as there is a way to run my games on this box, either with boot camp or in a VM, I really don't care how it gets done.

4 out of 5 stars

Sticking with VMWare Fusion.... November 15, 2009
N. A. Recob (Atlanta, GA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I cut my teeth in virtualization software with VMWare's Fusion 2 so I probably have a bias towards it when I say I have found VMWare Fusion 3 easier to navigate and more intuitive to use than Parallels 5. Now that I've tried both [VMWare Fusion and Parallels] I'm sticking with VMWare's Fusion--it just works for me. YMMV. Best of luck with whichever virtualization software you choose.

1 out of 5 stars

Terrible! November 11, 2009
Mr. D. L. Andrews (Texas)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

This does nothing more than can be done with free alternatives.
WARNING - It installs kernel extensions that not only slow down your system, but can make it unresponsive, unstable, and problematic.
I uninstalled this tool after just a week of use. Its buggy, and not worth the money.

3 out of 5 stars

Revised review; initial migration problems bypassed by creating a new virtual machine November 9, 2009
DC-Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Couldn't get it to do the basic task it is intended for -- put my PC on my MAC. I followed all instructions, disabled firewalls, UAC, etc., installed Migration agent on the PC and Fusion on the MAC, tried to migrate, but the MAC will not recognize my PC (invalid user name or password, it now says).

I decided to create a new virtual machine with XP Pro instead of migrating my old PC. The results are amazing. The virtual PC, now installed with Office 2007, seems faster than a native PC. I don't know why the migration function was totally dysfunctional for me, but alls well that ends well. Now I have the best of both worlds on one platform.

4 out of 5 stars

Getting better all the time... November 6, 2009
Geoff In SF (San Francisco)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Ive been running VMware fusion on both an iMac and Macbook 13" for some time now, progressively moving through each "upgrade" of version 2. The last two revisions attempted to integrate with Snow Leopard finally, albeit, with long lists of bug fixes and known problems.

My big gripes with version 2 (before trying v3 which I'll get to shortly)
1) buggy loads of XP. If you leave somethign plugged in to your USB and restart, blue screen of death, reboot...or blue screen and lockup. Many versions of crashes, some of which required me to go into the package contents for my virtual machine and delete the .lck files so that I could unfreeze it and try again.
2) even when it did load without incident, very slow to get you up and running. And once XP was just about loaded, a good 30 seconds before the network connection icon would show up and the network signal would pass from Mac OS to the virtual machine. Kind of annoying.
3) Very slow transition between mac and XP operating systems. Using the command-control-s would take a while to resize the the window for XP and allow access to the Mac OS if in full screen view. Unity was too painful. Plus, if you use single window, and have a bunch of icons on your windows desktop, it rearranges everything (if not locked) which is annoying because I have stuff organizzed a certain way on my desktop.
4) programs run much slower than on a native XP. Cursor drags slowly, editing text is thus painful, and moving between cells in Excel, same issue. Just slow slow slow. Graphics also take a long time to load, and complicated web graphics dont render well. VMware xp often seems confused when loading pages.

Sooooo what about Version 3 of Fusion you say? Well, oddly enough, nearly ALL of the above are fixed! The network pass through takes 30 seconds still, which im still bothered by, but oh well. XP loads faster. But part of that may be because Mac OSX loads a bit slower at initial machine start up. Programs run MUCH faster though, which is a huge benefit. No more pathetic slow MS office response times. That in and of itself is worth the upgrade.

I cant say yet whether it is more stable. I had a blue screen of death on the install, but it resolved in the normal way (through my hard work) and since, I havent had any issues. But those issues are almost always on startup and shutdown...once running, doesnt seem to ever crash. Maybe one day I'll work with VMware to figure out what is screwed up in my virtual machine that could be causing this. For the record, Im no expert on Virtualization.

Overall, A-
A solid product that keeps getting better.

A few things to note - try to avoid the symantec bundle that comes with the download. Pay attention to what you click on, so you dont end up getting something you dont need that just ends up as bloatware.

Also, the upgrade is a bit annoying now, because they try to sell you subscriptions to support, which means, if you dont buy that, your support is going to blow, and you'll end up fixing stuff on your own via their website support discussions, and trial and error. Or otherwise, their product just becomes a lot more expensive on an annual basis. Not cool.

Maybe I should change that to B+

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