We've previewed the beta's of the new VMware Fusion for Mac a few times on this blog. It's a superb product that enables you to run Windows, or another OS such as Ubuntu, on your Mac, without having to leave your regular desktop. Indeed, if you use Leopard, you can use Spaces to open the virtual OS on another screen, then quickly switch between both operating systems. Really effective.

VMware Fusion 2 is finally available and ships with a whole host of new features. We won't go in to all the new features here, but the final release now enables you to allocate up to four CPU cores to each VM (providing you have an eight-core Mac!), which is superb for Mac Pro users. Allocate a few CPU cores and 2GB of memory to Windows Vista and you shouldn't see too much slow down at all.

VMware Fusion 2 for Mac link.

17 Sep 2008