Parallels vs. Virtual PC: what's the difference?

[domerdel]

is there a huge performance margin over another? just curious.

(I have a MacPro)

 

[swiftaw]

Parallels only runs on intel hardware, virtual pc (i think) only runs on PPC hardware. Parallels is much much much faster, because it doesn't have to do as much hardware emulation.

 

[72930]

The real choice is Parallels or VMWare's Fusion 🙂 I recommend Fusion for speed and stability...

VirtualPC was a product for old PPC Macs, not Intel ones like yours...

 

[domerdel]

thanks for narrowing it down. Curious about VM, i would assume it would support Vista just fine, right? They appear to both be priced relatively the same.

 

[GNice]

Comparison between Fusion and Parallels...Fusion was the clear winner.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/16/fusion.vs.parallels/