http://www.southofshasta.com/blog/index.cfm en-us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:16:28 -0700 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss nolan.erck@gmail.com nolan.erck@gmail.com http://www.southofshasta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/24/MacBook-Pro-and-VMWare-Fusion--First-Impressions So...I switched sides and bought a Macbook Pro. :) My trusty-but-slightly-underpowered Dell Inspiron still does the job, but network connectivity has been weird with it lately. Plus the Mac came with Garage Band, and given my self-imposed-resolution to release SOMEthing w/ the band this year, I figure that'll be a huge plus too. So far I'm even more impressed with VMWare Fusion than with VMWare Server (which I use on another Dev box). I suppose that should be expected, given that VMWare Fusion is $80 while VMWare Server is free. Windows XP Pro installed in just a few minutes! Somehow it seemed to install faster on this machine than on a native Windows box. Very surprising! Additionally, VMWare Fusion was kind enough to auto-install VMWare Tools on the guest OS, set my display settings to a useful combination, and it set up a network connection, all behind the scenes! Each of those items usually needs to be set manually when I'm using VMWare Server. This was definitely a step up in terms of usability. Yesterday I took advantage of the sale at Macheist.com, and now have a few useful utilities to install as well. Hopefully this will be the LAST hardware upgrade I have to make for a while! Since I had to spend money, I'm glad it was ended on such an exciting-geeky-note, and not replacing a failed hard drive or some such thing. :) Mac Programming General VMWare Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:00 -0700 http://www.southofshasta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/24/MacBook-Pro-and-VMWare-Fusion--First-Impressions