This had me excited but it is a mistake. Parallels only claims "taking snapshots is up to 25% faster."
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This had me excited but it is a mistake. Parallels only claims "taking snapshots is up to 25% faster."
Again, working fine for me, can only speak for myself though.
Official Parallels press release says 90% - https://www.parallels.com/uk/parallels-desktop-12-for-mac-launches/
Aye, installed the free upgrade today. It's definitely a lot faster than 11 on the Sierra public betas. Can't speak to anything else about it yet though.
Overwatch would only run well if you had a pretty good mac pro, since parallels will only use half of your computers specs
I can't purchase parallels due to their terrible dock icon.
I upgrade every OTHER year so for me, it IS $25 a year.
I don't know why another poster said it breaks every single MacOS upgrade.
I update my MacOS every year and only Parallels every other year and it works fine.
It averages out to $2 a month. Big deal. It's excellent software and I've only had one small problem with it since day 1.
I love coherence mode and well....I just need it to run some windows only programs I just have to have.
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Haven't read this whole thread. I prefer Fusion because in my opinion Parallels is too invasive. I also don't like their licensing model.
I just fear that Fusion has become abandonware and that there will be no Sierra version.
I just fear that Fusion has become abandonware and that there will be no Sierra version.
Trados
Notepad++ (No, there is nothing even close in OS X - specially when dealing with XML linearization and things like that)
Sound Forge (Not as much as before. Sound Forge on OS X is not up to par)
Passolo
Catalyst
Kutools and Translation Tools for Word (Windows only)
Arbortext
and I can go on and on and on...
I've used them since at least version 8, upgrading every time it was offered; they still haven't fixed my bug report from version 10. I may go to VirtualBox instead.
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Have you tried Sublime Text?
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Have you tried Sublime Text?
I agree with you. I'm also a developer and for me, it works very well and worth the subscription price. VirtualBox also gives me a world of problems: Unity is a horror story with Unity, I have a game called Jazz Jackrabbit 2 that has never worked on VirtualBox, and there's no feature like Coherence mode on VirtualBox. (Unless there is since the last time I've used it. And that was about 2-3 years ago.)
If there's a better virtualization software out there, though, then I might switch, but I need to make sure that I don't have to go through a headache just switch it over. I keep hearing "VMWare" over here, but I'm a little wary about it.
Yes I have. And also Oxygen, Brackets, Atom, BBEdit, Eclipse... and I always find myself needing to go back to Notepad ++ someway or the other.
The type of text files we work with in the localization industry can be quite challenging for some of the other tools.
You are eligible to upgrade to v12 for free.I just bought Desktop 11 a week ago. My work discount makes the annoyance somewhat smaller.
I use it almost exclusively to do streaming between Windows 10 and my Xbox One, and thus make my Steam Controller work with the console.
Add a few minor features and charge a whole lot. “upgrade” price of $49.99 basically every year. A normal “upgrade” price is usually $19.99.
This looks interesting: https://veertu.com
and check the comments of this article http://arstechnica.com/information-...n-but-not-many-reasons-to-upgrade/?comments=1
and check the comments of this article
http://arstechnica.com/information-...n-but-not-many-reasons-to-upgrade/?comments=1
VMWare fired entire Fusion developers earlier this year. The company is using off-shore contractors for maintenance and future version. So don't be so sure about that.
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Easier for them to say considering Fusion is now developed entirely by offshore contractors (it fired the entire team in January).
I recently returned to school and was taking a SQL basics class. The lessons required the use of SQL Management Studio which is a windows only application. I could have used the school's computers but since it was an online class, i wanted to use my own Mac. I created a Boot Camp partition along with Windows 10 and installed SQL Management Studio. I also installed Parallels demo. I decided very quickly I would rather have Windows running inside of my Mac OS. Things worked very well for me with this configuration. I liked being able to share files between the web browser I needed to use for the online class and the SQL Management Studio application withing Windows 10.
That's not entirely accurate.
This was posted by Michael Roy on the VMware communities forum on March 23, 2016 in response to the many questions people have on the future of Fusion. Michael Roy is the Product Line Marketing Manager for Fusion, Fusion Pro, Workstation Pro and Workstation Player at VMware. He guides product roadmap and messaging, produces and presents technical collateral, and works across teams to refine product integration strategy.
So I am personally hopeful for the future of Fusion and Workstation and that VMware will continue to support it.
Windows browser testing for web development. Often I'll load up 3 or 4 different Windows versions VMs with various versions of IE/FF/Chrome etc to check for bugs, or troubleshoot specific bugs that clients report to me in say, IE9 on Windows 8 etc.
Gotta say I need to do this a lot less these days. It used to be an essential part of the process when IE6/7/8 were still in play (and all my VMs were tiny XP installs), but the IE issues are largely gone in 9 onward (and Edge now), and FF/Chrome have been pretty solid for cross-platform rendering.
Only reason I'm on Parallels 11 instead of 10 is someone bought a new Mac and it came with a free copy of 11. Don't think I'm going to bother with 12 unless 11 completely breaks in Sierra.
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Or YOU can just turn that option off in your VM options under "Applications".
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Why don't you use the Mac version of Unity?
When the newest Mac you can buy is this outdated and you want to run windows you really need to question wtf you're doing with your life
Thanks for the tip. Maybe they deserved to get fired?
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I don't really care as long as the software works. But, if it ends up sucking or if customer support proves less then ideal, then I'll consider making the switch.
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Perusing dell.com, it doesn't seem like what Apple offers is "outdated." Apple offers the same CPUs, fast SSDs, same networking, lighter laptops, phenomenal Retina screens, plus touches like backlit keyboards and magsafe plugs - not to mention top tier service and support, including just walking into an Apple store with your device to get it serviced. About the only spot where it seems to fall short is using USB 3 instead of 3.1, but considering that SATA III is limited to 6 gbps, for a single drive connection over USB you're not really missing a lot. The fact is, the underlying component manufacturers haven't really moved a whole lot lately.
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