Review by Busy Executive

Others have covered most of what I want to say, but I thought I’d add a few comments.

First, VMware really rocks on my 8-core Mac Pro. For some reason I don’t quite understand, it runs some Windows benchmarks within a virtual machine faster than booting Windows natively on the box! Graphics-intensive apps seem to do better natively, but anything that does lots of I/O seems to run faster under VMware.

The other thing I wanted to mention is that it’s really more than just Windows on a Mac - you can run just about any Intel operating system within VMware. On my Mac Pro, I have Linux (both RedHat and SuSE/Novell) and a few other old Intel-based operating systems - even a very old OS/2. Honestly, this helped me justify the price of my Mac Pro - one box runs Mac, several versions of Windows, Linux and so on. And they all run really well… :)nnGreat job, VMware!