Monday, 28 April 2008

Parallels Desktop for beats competition in real-world performance testing


MacTech Magazine published a very comprehensive performance and productivity benchmark comparing Parallels Desktop for Mac (build 5160, which is now out of date), Boot Camp, and VMware Fusion 1.0 (build 51348, which is not the current in-production build).

The benchmark not only tested raw performance (i.e., how fast the VM opens applications and performs processing tasks), but also "task tests", which study how long it takes to accomplish a certain multi-platform, multi-step test, such as downloading a PDF in Outlook, but opening it in Preview for Mac OS X.

Read the whole article/test results at MacTech.com.

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