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In a variety of benchmarks, Parallels 8 beat Fusion 5 by five to twenty percent. But both were remarkably capable of running Windows 7 and Windows 8. Heck, eve

In a variety of benchmarks, Parallels 8 beat Fusion 5 by five to twenty percent. But both were remarkably capable of running Windows 7 and Windows 8. Heck, even Crysis was "playable" on Medium settings. Any other tests you want to see? Let me know!

weaksauce 14y ago
I am actually more curious about the percent increase in performance from parallels 7 to parallels 8. Do you have any statistics on that?
KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago
How much faster is P8 than P7? A ballpark approximation would be helpful. Thanks for the report.
Flow 14y ago
I don't think even twice as fast performance will convince me to buy another Parallels upgrade when they treat their customers like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_hate_the_popup_advertising_heres/ http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_h... Every time I started Parallels I got a huge window asking me to register in order to get software updates. And when I did I got ads instead. :-(
- duskwuff 14y ago
  Agreed -- with the constant promotional popups on launch, running Parallels starts feeling like you're using an ad-supported product. Except you still have to pay for it! And no, there's no way to completely turn them off. Each individual promo popup has a checkbox that'll make it stop showing up, but that's useless, because they run so many promos. Even the super-secret "defaults write" command that Parallels support hands out only works until you next update Parallels.
- mikhailt 14y ago
  Try this, it helped me: defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES I really don't want to upgrade because of this BS. I don't know if switching to VMWare is worth it.
- Derbasti 14y ago
  Funny. I just had a call from a very nice VMWare customer service agent after a few days of exchanging emails: Office 2013 on Win 8 has graphical glitches in Fusion 5 if 3D acceleration is enabled. While he did not have a fix for me, he did tell me about a workaround (disabling 3D accelleration) and reassured me that the problem is known and actively being worked on. Considering that both Win 8 and Office 2013 are prerelease software, I am entirely fine with that. And to get back to the point: that phone call was extremely pleasant and really gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that they actually care about my problems. That, honestly, is worth a lot to me. Indeed more than a few percentage points of performance.
- crag 14y ago
  Parallels has terrible customer service. And frankly until i can play Skyrim in it any VM decently, I'll be using bootcamp. BUT I do use Fusion to access my bootcamp drive. And it works like a charm. I don't game that way, but I do develop that way. Sometimes.
atopuzov 14y ago
Is it worth the upgrade form P7 to P8?
joethompson 14y ago
A baseline comparison of the same tests running in Boot Camp might give a nice understanding of what kind of general performance loss you're going to get by virtualising at all.

weaksauce 14y ago

I am actually more curious about the percent increase in performance from parallels 7 to parallels 8. Do you have any statistics on that?

KaoruAoiShiho 14y ago

How much faster is P8 than P7? A ballpark approximation would be helpful. Thanks for the report.

Flow 14y ago

I don't think even twice as fast performance will convince me to buy another Parallels upgrade when they treat their customers like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_hate_the_popup_advertising_heres/ http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/x0qgs/using_parallels_h... Every time I started Parallels I got a huge window asking me to register in order to get software updates. And when I did I got ads instead. :-(

duskwuff 14y ago
Agreed -- with the constant promotional popups on launch, running Parallels starts feeling like you're using an ad-supported product. Except you still have to pay for it! And no, there's no way to completely turn them off. Each individual promo popup has a checkbox that'll make it stop showing up, but that's useless, because they run so many promos. Even the super-secret "defaults write" command that Parallels support hands out only works until you next update Parallels.
mikhailt 14y ago
Try this, it helped me: defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES I really don't want to upgrade because of this BS. I don't know if switching to VMWare is worth it.
Derbasti 14y ago
Funny. I just had a call from a very nice VMWare customer service agent after a few days of exchanging emails: Office 2013 on Win 8 has graphical glitches in Fusion 5 if 3D acceleration is enabled. While he did not have a fix for me, he did tell me about a workaround (disabling 3D accelleration) and reassured me that the problem is known and actively being worked on. Considering that both Win 8 and Office 2013 are prerelease software, I am entirely fine with that. And to get back to the point: that phone call was extremely pleasant and really gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling that they actually care about my problems. That, honestly, is worth a lot to me. Indeed more than a few percentage points of performance.
crag 14y ago
Parallels has terrible customer service. And frankly until i can play Skyrim in it any VM decently, I'll be using bootcamp. BUT I do use Fusion to access my bootcamp drive. And it works like a charm. I don't game that way, but I do develop that way. Sometimes.

atopuzov 14y ago

Is it worth the upgrade form P7 to P8?

joethompson 14y ago

A baseline comparison of the same tests running in Boot Camp might give a nice understanding of what kind of general performance loss you're going to get by virtualising at all.