Skip to Content

Free TUAW iPhone app -- try it now!
AOL Tech

vmware-fusion posts

Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Commercial

Get VMware Fusion for as little as $9.99 today only


Twitter does have legitimate uses after all! One is finding sweet deals on some of our favorite software. If you happen to follow @vmwarefusion, you know what I'm talking about.

Team Fusion announced in their updates that today only, December 1, 2008, a copy of VMWare Fusion 2.0 for OSX is available for just $39.99! That's 50% off the regular price! The site has just updated to reflect the special price, though earlier, the promo code CyberMondayDeal needed to be entered to take advantage of the offer.

VMWare has a competitive upgrade offer in effect. If you're an existing Parallels or Virtual PC user, you're eligible for an additional $30 rebate.

The 30-day trial is still available for download as well, but how can you go wrong for $10?

[via TUAW]

Filed under: OS Updates, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Microsoft, Commercial

VMWare releases Fusion 1.1

VMWare FusionVirtual machines have been around for years, but it's only been in the last couple of years that performance on them has become good for regular and productive use. When Apple made their big switch to Intel processors, an upstart company named Parallels came along and did what seemed at the time to be the unthinkable: they created a virtual machine environment in OS X that allowed users to run Windows at virtually full speed.

Of course, veteran virtual machine company VMWare apparently took notice, and although they were later to the Mac virtual machine game, they arrived with years of experience behind them. Today, it's a toss-up as to who has the better product - and that's great for consumers. We're in the position of being able to watch a horse race between two very capable and competitive companies, and that means that performance and features are going to continue increasing at a rapid pace on both platforms.

VMWare has recently upped the ante with the release of VMWare Fusion 1.1, their aforementioned Mac virtual machine platform. As reported by our sister site TUAW, the new version of Fusion comes with Leopard support, experimental DirectX 9.0 support, full Vista and XP support, a beta version of VMWare importer, and overall improvements to speed and performance.

Parallels, it's your move.

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio