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Mac Sales Extend to "Cyber Monday" and VMWare Fusion 2.0 as Low as $10

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Perhaps in an effort to extend the buying frenzy of Black Friday, ... [/url]
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Hope not too much of a frenzy ... MacConnection shows "call for availability" for MacBook Pro 15" 2.4. My order for the MacBook Pro still open after placing early on "Black Friday".
 
Does the 30 dollar competitive rebate apply to todays cybermonday deal? Because on the online rebate form, it says not combinable with any other vmware offers.
And: I bought parallels with the Macupdate deal earlier this year, am I eligible for the $30 upgrade rebate?
Thanks
 
Our price comparison chart has been updated with the latest pricing from MacMall, MacConnection and Amazon which continue to have discounts as high at $300 on MacBook Pros.
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The prices at MacMall appear to be half of what they were on Friday:

$50 off all Macbooks (old and new)
$100 off all Macbook Pros
$50 off the Macbook Airs
$75 and $100 off the iMacs
$150 off the Mac Pro
 
I just purchased VMWare fusion for $40 from Vmware.com and unfortunatly cannot apply for the rebate....... YET --- their systems says you need to wait 72hrs before applying.. I tried anyway, and it says I'm don't have a valid serial for the rebate.. I'll wait and see what happens in a couple days..
 
MasterNile said:
However, wasn't black friday started the same way as this "Cyber Monday"? And if major companies join the bandwagon then it might become like another black friday, but with out people getting trampled, hurt, or even dying.
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IIRC, the term "Black Friday" was first used by retailers to describe the huge wave of shoppers hitting the stores on the day after Thanksgiving. Somewhere along the line (quite recently) it was picked up by the media and turned into a generic name for the biggest shopping day of the year. So I don't think it's any more or less legitimate than "Cyber Monday."
 
The upgrade to VMWare for $10 has some appeal.

My issue with Parallels was that the last version basically goobered up my Mac. It took and make file associations with all the apps that were in all my Windows virtual machines! It took a while to clean this up and I'm not sure I got all the pieces. This really, really made me mad because while you can apparently turn this feature "off", it pretty much did its thing without asking, and it is opt-out instead of opt-in.

However, I just looked at the VMWare web site.... looks like Fusion now does the same thing!?! Is it as intrusive? I want my virtual machines sand boxed, for crying out loud.
 
ab2650 said:
I'm in the same boat getting Parallels with the MU Promo... It all looks legit, but I don't particularly feel comfortable sending VMWare my Parallels serial number.

I'm pretty content with Parallels however, so I'm in no big rush to switch.
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Did anyone find out whether the MacUpdate promo that bundled Parallels with it is eligible for this rebate?
Thanks, Paul
 
$10 is pretty hard to resist.

I haven't needed Windows on my Macbook too frequently, but I did buy Parallels some time ago. I also tested Fusion about a year ago and liked that it would idle at much lower CPU than Parallels. Can someone answer if this is still the case today?
 
What is the "product serial number" for the rebate and where do I find it? Do they mean the registration code, or something else? I still have the install disk and the box, though I don't think I ever had a printed manual (the alternative to the serial number for the rebate). Nothing is particularly obvious.
 
imac9556 said:
Does the 30 dollar competitive rebate apply to todays cybermonday deal? Because on the online rebate form, it says not combinable with any other vmware offers.
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Yes.

http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/...e-fusion-combine-with-competitive-rebate.html

What’s more, in the United States and Canada, this deal combines with our $30 competitive rebate for Parallels and Virtual PC for Mac users. On top of getting Fusion for half off, you can get $30 back when you prove ownership of a competing product.

So yes, you heard that right.
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kid rock said:
i have just purchased vmware 2.0 for mac osx from vmwares website for 33.29GBP down from 60GBP+VAT using the "CyberMondayDeal" promo code at the checkout,

just to let you all know, dont know about other countrys tho!

hope this helps


Simon:apple:
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I've just done the same. I am so glad to see the back of parallels!

No more waiting for "parallels tools for linux".

No more 512 MB limit on the virtual Linux machine's RAM.

No more having to boot XP after booting Linux so that parallels doesn't lose the active partition.

No more interminable waits for support on the forums.

I'll be very surprised if a lot of parallels' customers don't jump ship too.
 
Do you think VM ware would be worth it for me? The only think I could think of using windows for is to play older games like GuildWars.
 
Rivix said:
Do you think VM ware would be worth it for me? The only think I could think of using windows for is to play older games like GuildWars.
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Based on reports from my daughter: Guild Wars does not run well in VMware 2.0 - there appear to be some unsupported / poorly supported shaders that end up causing odd visuals (specifically it looks like a long stick poking out of every avatar's back that extends up into the sky).

Try downloading and using the Parallels 4 trial - she's had some luck with that (based on limited testing). Note that she did a fresh install w/ Parallels 4 and Windows + Guild Wars, after having somewhat problematic results using Parallels 4 + an existing boot camp partition that was previously associated with VMware.
 
Winni said:
I own licenses for both Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion, but VMWare Fusion is the better product in all aspects and especially when you also want to run alternate operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or anything else in it.

However, when you want to play games, you won't be needing either, because games only work properly when you run Windows natively, which in Apple terms means you have to use BootCamp.

But my honest opinion is that you should buy an Xbox 360 for your gaming needs. Apple hardware still is a poor choice for gaming, the company does not even offer up-to-date graphics cards for the Mac Pro series. The already out-dated nVidia 8800GT is the hottest graphics card for games that Apple offers, and that baby is second-last generation at best and choking when you run beasts like Crysis (or even STALKER) on it.

But even if Apple had high-end gaming graphics cards in the offer, the Xbox 360 would still be the better option.
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Sounds like I'll just stick without getting anything. I have a MBP with the old ATI graphics card (1200?), which isn't bad but isn't even the older Nvidia one. I mainly would like to try out the new Command & Conquer game and something else like that. I have a Nintendo Wii for games, but there are one or two that are PC-only that I would like to play. I'll be screaming at EA when the next Sim City comes out if it's not for Mac. Arrgh.
 
MacUpdate Parallels serials

People that purchased Parallels through the MacUpdate Promo last April got a legit, full serial number for Parallels, as if they purchased it directly through Parallels, Inc. So I would imagine that it is eligible for the $10 VMWare Fusion upgrade (as VMWare doesn't have the knowledge of what serial number blocks were given to MacUpdate).
 
VMware down

Hey, I've been trying to order for an hour now. I keep getting "unable to process your order" errors. Anyone else experiencing this?
 
macupdate said:
People that purchased Parallels through the MacUpdate Promo last April got a legit, full serial number for Parallels, as if they purchased it directly through Parallels, Inc. So I would imagine that it is eligible for the $10 VMWare Fusion upgrade (as VMWare doesn't have the knowledge of what serial number blocks were given to MacUpdate).
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Thanks MacUpdate!!
 
Awesome Deal.... Thanks

I have been using Parallels and demo'd Fusion 2.0.

It works for me much better than parallels and did the BlackCyberMonday deal and got it for 39.95. When you do the rebate it requires 72 hours to register your serial # before submitting for rebate.

So, in the long run it will be $10 for it.

THANKS! MacRumour😀s!
 
irun5k said:
The upgrade to VMWare for $10 has some appeal.

My issue with Parallels was that the last version basically goobered up my Mac. It took and make file associations with all the apps that were in all my Windows virtual machines! It took a while to clean this up and I'm not sure I got all the pieces. This really, really made me mad because while you can apparently turn this feature "off", it pretty much did its thing without asking, and it is opt-out instead of opt-in.

However, I just looked at the VMWare web site.... looks like Fusion now does the same thing!?! Is it as intrusive? I want my virtual machines sand boxed, for crying out loud.
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Yeah I had the same thing happen; pissed the hell out of me; all sorts of crap thrown into the Mac menus.

Fusion does not do this nearly as bad as Parallels. I think it only does it when you run Unity mode; but even then it is pretty clean.

I like Fusion better than Parallels; even the VM OS install is easier.

-mark
 
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