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MacUpdate Bundle: Parallels and 9 More Mac Apps for $64.99

this strategy sounds crazy. the unlocking threat seems more likely to encourage individual purchasers to hold off, until enough of us have jumped in on the gamble that all the features will eventually be unlocked.
or is there some genius marketing principle i'm missing here?
happy to buy the bundle; not willing to take part in some weird consumption gamble.
 
ravenvii said:
like almost everyone else in the thread, I feel Fusion > Parallels
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Why? I've read every review/comparison I can find, and Parallels seems to be the better choice (for me, who wants platform integration, not isolation). I don't have either, and am going to snatch one or the other up as soon as the elusive new Mac Mini appears. Also, my wife is poking around the edges of writing a novel, so that writing software looks enticing, too.
 
Bad Paper said:
Why? I've read every review/comparison I can find, and Parallels seems to be the better choice (for me, who wants platform integration, not isolation).
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Who cares about the reviews and internet comparisons? You can download trial versions of both Parallels and Fusion and see for yourself which one is better. I tried both and found that they both had advantages and that depending on the type of program and task that one would outperform the other. If you download them you can see which one handles the Windows or Linux programs that you'll personally find yourself running. For me though I preferred Fusion overall.

On a sidenote, if I buy an OEM copy of Windows, can I install and activate it for both Bootcamp AND Fusion / Parallels? Or do I need two copies?
 
I just bought the bundle, only 15000 people need to do the same before I can get Parallels Desktop. :rolleyes:
 
I tried Fusion and Parallels and went with Parallels. It got in my way a lot less and the latest build of Parallels 3.0 is working much better than the older builds. XP is snappier.

Need to try some of the more advanced games to see how they're doing but lately I am spending time playing the WindowsXP update for Duke Nukem3D. (yes the old game, nostalgia and fun!) What's kinda sad is that I can fire that up in an airport or coffee shop and nobody knows what it is. Ah well.

Irony of ironies, I am actually using Parallels to run a Windows VWare client to run virtualized PCs back at work. It works better this way for me than using Fusion to run XP to run another VMware product.

At work we were using Mac minis to run Parallels to run XP to run VMWare to run virtual versions of Windows 2000 and 2003. Multilayer insanity!

Bad Paper said:
Why? I've read every review/comparison I can find, and Parallels seems to be the better choice (for me, who wants platform integration, not isolation). I don't have either, and am going to snatch one or the other up as soon as the elusive new Mac Mini appears. Also, my wife is poking around the edges of writing a novel, so that writing software looks enticing, too.
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seems like a good deal.. if i didnt already have parallels, i'd get it..

any of you guys out there who have a need for virtualization, then i'd recommend this bundle.. even if you dont use the other apps
 
I just downloaded a trial of Hazel and Typinator. Typinator is very very good, much better than other abbreviation apps I have tried. It just annoys me to no end that I cannot seem to get rid of it at the top of the menu bar. I hate unimportant apps that reside there.

Hazel basically is superior to an Automator script and it is VERY useful to me since I always download a lot of crap and forget to remove it again, save the apps from the .dmgs. This way I can trash old documents and move keep apps to another folder automatically.

MenuCalendarClock really saves me time from loading iCal whenever I want to check my calendar.

Wow. Just tried Art Text and it's really cool to make nice headings and logos and such.

I will buy this, but my main incentive would be to get a license of Parallels since that pretty much made the best and easiest Windows installation I have ever tried.
 
For those trying to play games on Parallels or VMWare's Fusion, note that there is a third option called Crossover games; it's a build of crossover which is normally only for the like of Office and such, but optimised for games.

It's a wine build made specifically for mac, you can try it out for a week or two I believe, and otherwise it's only 37 euros.

Most of the popular Steam games run, as well as Guild Wars and Eve Online.
 
As mentioned before Parallels 4.0 shouldn't be that far off. Also Typinator 3.0 has just come out, but it says 2.1 here. So is it really all that much of a bargain?
 
ANTMUZ said:
As mentioned before Parallels 4.0 shouldn't be that far off. Also Typinator 3.0 has just come out, but it says 2.1 here. So is it really all that much of a bargain?
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While you're correct about Parallels 4.0 being around the corner the version of Typinator that is downloaded in this bundle is infact 3.0

http://rubyurl.com/JB6h << The version I downloaded and registered today from MacUpdate

http://rubyurl.com/jR2k << I think it might be a mistake they have made, in the final bill it shows as " Typinator 3.0"
 
If Parallels is being offered in this, it only means that it has reached the end of its life and 4.0 will be released - on April 30th. If you have no need for the other apps, you would be better off waiting.

Kind of like Speed Download on the last Macheist. Version 4.9 was offered. Version 5 was released almost immediately afterwards with no discounted upgrade. Yazsoft relented later because of the slamming it got.
 
Hmm, I think I'll just be going with Fusion—Safari feels a lot snappier in Vista in Fusion.
 
This bundle is way better than MacHeists. I think Leap sounds OK, but Yep is what I actually want. The tagging feature makes far more sense when organizing PDFs than all my files. Too bad I didn't get the last bundle that had it.
 
Currently, it's for me cheaper to use VMWare Fusion instead of Parallels. Because with Parallels I am less productive, mainly because of the daily crashes of Parallels and means losing ~1 hour of productive time per day. It's sad throw away 200$USD away, of course! No give me, VMWare Fusion and the good technical support. Now a new version would be nice, though ;)
 
My first thought when I saw this today was, "great", but then I looked more closely at each of the apps and it's not really that exciting to me. I bought the last one, but I think I'll pass on this one. I just don't see a lot of stuff that I would use enough to make it worthwhile. :(
 
The other thing I just realized was that the last MacUpdate bundle in December was only $50. This one's gone up to $65 (30%)? Where's the value in that? :confused:
 
This smacks of desperation from Parallels. I have a feeling this might have something to do with VMware eating Parallels' lunch since Fusion was released. They're probably banking on upgrade fees to make this worth their while.
 
How good is Leap?

Has anybody here some experience with Leap? How good of a Finder-Replacement is it?

I very much like to have a file-browser that has the ability to split the folder-structure from the directory content. I think Leap does this.

However, my Home-Folder (inherited from my Windows days) has about 30.000 files in it (SW-development, research projects, etc.) and I hate, hate, hate to let Finder loose on it. Everytime I add something to the currend structure it changes the ordering and what I see almost never matches my mental representation (I am more of a spacial guy - I remember it I put it in the 3rd folder from the top, but Finder garbles this all by insisting on alphabetical sorting...)

So, my question really is: will Leap be up to the task and stable?
 
Doctor Q said:
Parallels Desktop alone costs $79.99. If it gets unlocked, it's like getting everything else for free.
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True enough but the upgrade is $49.99 so unless there is something else I need then I'll pass too.
 
Bad Paper said:
Why? I've read every review/comparison I can find, and Parallels seems to be the better choice (for me, who wants platform integration, not isolation). I don't have either, and am going to snatch one or the other up as soon as the elusive new Mac Mini appears....
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I started with Parallels, but I switched to Fusion. I even tried going back to Parallels after it had some updates and ended up abandoning it again. For me Windows is faster and more stable running in Fusion, but more than anything networking works much better. I use the Nortel VPN client and had problems using it in Parallels that I don't have with Fusion.
 
Detektiv-Pinky said:
So, my question really is: will Leap be up to the task and stable?
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I'm interested in seeing any responses to this question too. I played around with Leap a little earlier, when it first went into Beta, but didn't really keep using it to get the hang of it. But I think Leap (and Yep) are really interesting new replacements for the Finder.
 
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