Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Update
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There are two camps forming: one side who loves Parallels for the Mac, and another side who loves VMware Fusion for the Mac. It’s great to see that with a recent patch, many Parallels performance issues were minimized. Kevin emailed me about it the other day:
I normally wouldn’t send you a link to one of my articles, but I think you’ll appreciate this one. Since we cater to a mobile audience, I looked at how Parallels hits your battery life with their v2.5 a few months ago. It was so bad that I couldn’t run Vista on my MBP for too long when out and about. And the fan noise when running Parallels on the 2.33 GHz C2Duo….let’s just say it was embarrassing; like the Mac had a constant case of intestinal gas.
I just revisited the same basic tests with the newest release of Parallels and found a vast improvement in how effective the new virtualization software is.
I’m only running Vista on the MBP for Outlook 2007 since Entourage is stuck in 2003 for now.
I was loving my installation of Fusion when I was in Germany. I wasn’t using Outlook 2007 in a virtual machine, but I was relying on IE7 for OWA 2003 (Outlook Web Access). While a OWA Light 2003 works in Firefox, it’s beyond unusable. I have to wait for Rackspace to upgrade their servers to Exchange 2007 / OWA 2007 before I would consider using a native OS X browser to access my inbox.
Lord knows if Entourage 2008 will be any better than the current version of Entourage (I’ve only seen one screenshot for it, and it looks marginally better). The latest screenshots of the Mac Office Suite UI overhaul look very promising, however.
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One Comment
Matt Hartley
September 22nd, 2007
at 8:13pm
They do have Evolution for Mac now - beats Outlook hands down for my money, although it may not be as ‘pretty’. Works well with Exchange in Linux, stands to reason that it would on the Mac, too.
http://soupnazi.org/archives/174/
I would love to hear how it is working for OS X? And as luck would have it, the ability to drag mail from an Exchange folder to a local one works ‘perfectly’ in the Linux release, so I would like to know if this is supported on the Mac as well?