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VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

#3

Post by jpitz »

VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

#5

Post by sirn »

jpitz wrote: post #3

VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )

$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade, it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch.

I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade key after purchase while it only took VMware 3 hours to answer my question regarding Fusion 4.)

[1]: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=113543

[2]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/vmwareoffer/

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

#6

Post by jpitz »

sirn wrote: post #5
jpitz wrote: post #3

VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )

$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade , it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch. I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade…

That is an entirely fair point. I was going off the memory of an $80 price point from 2, and a fairly cheap-sh upgrade to 3.

[edit - instead of replying to myself]

In any case, I'll hold off a patch release or two. Heck, I haven't even installed Lion yet on my primary dev machine.

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

#7

Post by sirn »

They seems to change the EULA to allow installing on as may Macs as long as you own it[1], compared to previous license[2]:

    You are prohibited from installing and using the Software on more than one computer at a time
[1]: http://twitter.com/#!/VMwareFusion/status/113994645062684672

[2]: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/fusion3.html

Re: VMware Fusion 4 Released

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Post by blinkingled »

jpitz wrote: post #3

VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )

I am in similar situation. I thought there was 30 day money back guarantee on Parallels 7 - anyone has an idea how easy/hard Parallel's return process is?
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