“If there’s a flaw, it’s in the expectations that VMware sets for what you can do. Aero Glass and typical VM-friendly apps will work, but despite marketing speak we’d treat the extra graphics support as useful for compatibility alone, not as a redefinition of what you can do with virtual operating systems. Gamers will still want Boot Camp at the ready, and we’d recommend that serious VM users have as fast a system as possible if they want a transparent experience. The addition of quad-core iMacs couldn’t have come at a better time,” MacNN reports.
“Even with that performance overhead, we’d still say that Fusion 3 is easily the go-to app if you depend on Windows for testing or still need a connection to Windows before you move completely to the Mac universe. At $80 it’s inexpensive enough to be both a viable companion to a copy of Windows and a worthwhile upgrade from an earlier version of Fusion,” MacNN reports.
There’s much, much more in the full review – recommended – here.
