Until now, if you wanted to run an occasional Windows application on a Mac, you had to install Apple’s very own Boot Camp and select which OS you wanted to boot into after you powered on. But VMware changes all of that with the VMware Fusion, an application that lets you run Windows (or Linux for that matter) within the OS X environment on any Intel-based Mac.
Easy Setup, Lengthy Load Time
Setup was infinitely simple. After loading the VMware Fusion software onto our MacBook (2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB of RAM) and answering a handful of questions in the setup wizard, we were prompted to load Windows onto the machine—in this case, Windows Vista Home Premium. After we launched VMware Fusion, we were unable to use the MacBook for nearly 3 minutes as Windows loaded on the virtual machine. Note that VMware recommends using at least 2GB of RAM when running Vista.
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