OEM versions of Windows that came pre-installed on a PC, however, are not eligible to be migrated to a Mac, according to Microsoft licensing rules, Lee said.Ĭiting NPD Group's data on U.S. One or the other came standard on all Macs in the past two years, he said.įusion 3.0 also lets users more easily migrate their copies of Windows on a PC into virtual machines running on a Mac. To support these games and Windows graphical features such as Aero, Lee said, Mac hardware with an ATI Radeon 2600 or Nvidia 8 series graphics chip will be needed.
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Fusion 3.0 also lets viewers watch 1080p video, as did its prior version 2.
In beta now, Parallels 5.0 will reportedly also include support for Aero and faster, more efficient performance.įusion 3.0 will support the DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1 multimedia APIs - enough, said Lee, to let users play Windows action games such as Portal or Lego Star Wars on Macs. did not respond to a request for comment.
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"I feel we've made good progress on reducing overhead," he said, adding that Fusion 3.0 will be more efficient with Windows 7 and XP than with Vista.Īvailable immediately for pre-order, Fusion 3.0 lists for $79.99 for a full retail copy, and $39.99 for an upgrade.įusion 3.0 will apparently beat rival Parallels 5.0 to the market. Lee said he can run Windows' Outlook e-mail via Fusion 3.0 on his MacBook Pro as long as four hours. Lower CPU utilization means lower power usage, Lee said, and addresses the complaint that running Windows under Fusion quickly drains the MacBook battery. For instance, an idle virtual machine of Windows 7 under Fusion 3.0 will only use about 5 percent of the processor's power, Lee said. 27, five days after the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, Fusion 3.0 will also run Windows on a Mac faster and more efficiently than prior versions of Fusion. Though dependent upon Windows for Fusion, VMware competes heavily with Microsoft on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and server virtualization side.Ī company spokeswoman said by e-mail, "Microsoft makes it a practice not to comment on products we haven't seen."ĭan Englander, a Web designer in Concord, Mass., who has been beta-testing Fusion 3.0, said in a blog post, "Fusion 3.0 seems faster and more responsive than 2.0." Windows' Aero graphical desktop "runs well," while the Unity feature allows his Windows apps to show up on the Mac dock, ready to be launched, he said.Īvailable Oct. VMware's willingness to dump two long-running aspects of the Windows interface in favor of a Mac-like take on them shows the company's cooptative relationship with Microsoft.
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Leveraging Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard's 64-bit core, Fusion 3.0 will also be the first version to support Windows' advanced graphical features, such as Aero, Aero Peek, and Flip 3D, features largely considered to have been pioneered or inspired by Apple's Mac operating system.
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