VMWare Fusion or Crossover Mac?

[dextermorgan]

Basically the only reason I need Windows is to use One Note. I have tried Omni Outliner, Notebook, etc. but nothing could come close to One Note.

The options I see are VMWare Fusion (or Parallels) or Crossover for Mac.

I already have Windows XP and One Note.

Anyone have experience with Crossover or any thoughts on which I should use?

 

[Neil321]

If it were me id go the Fusion route for the simple reason you can run it off a windows partition, well handy should you ever need native speed ( shutdown fusion and boot into windows ) this is something crossover cannot do

 

[jeremy.king]

VirtualBox gets my vote - http://www.virtualbox.org/

 

[mkrishnan]

The indication from Crossover users on One Note's functionality is not exactly glowing...

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2865;forum=1;msg=38036

It seems to work, but it seems less than perfect. Given that you have XP already, I would go for Parallels or VMWare also. VirtualBox and Q are okay, too, albeit as far as I know the experience with the two paid apps is quite a lot better and most people consider it worthwhile.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

Parallels is the answer. Fusion seems very clunky in comparison. The Coherence feature knocks Fusion's Unity hands down. I have OneNote and ran it with Parallels, it seemed to fit into OS X better than Fusion. You can customize what you want to see, task bar icons in menu bar, the start bar on top of dock or below menu bar, etc.

 

[dextermorgan]

Thanks for the replies. The one issue I have with Fusion and Parallels is the battery life. They seem to take it down quite a bit more than Crossover, but if thats the cost of keeping it stable then I will have to deal with it. Hopefully Microsoft will release a decent Mac version of One Note eventually. I know a lot of students that would be pretty happy if they did.