R3Ware, Inc. / Robert R. Randall

I’m beginning to suspect that one of the reasons I’m loving my MacBook Pro is that VMware Fusion is such a great product.  I use a lot of virtual machines for cross platform work and for testing networking protocols.  My advise to VMware; make a version of Fusion for Windows 7.  VMware Workstation is very sad when compared to Fusion.  I would happily buy Fusion for Windows 7.  I do that much troubleshooting across multiple platforms that it would be well worth it.  And I’m trying to consolidate my world down to one workstation grade machine and my MacBook Pro.  But I will NOT pay the crazy prices for a Mac Pro tower.  Those are nuts.

While the speed improvements and saved disk space are nice Apple sure missed the mark when it comes to coordinating with the rest of the commercial software world.  I’m having nothing but troubles with plugins for Safari and with running FireFox and plugins for it.  This really isn’t that hard to coordinate.  Apple, quit being so ‘black ops’ about things like this and get your ecosystem on board early with these changes.  It makes you look very bush league and foolish when end users run into these types of problems.  You’re supposed to be the ‘it just works’ platform.  Well, you missed the mark with 10.6.  It doesn’t ‘just work’ but it does do a great job of crashing browsers including Safari.  Please do better next time, or do I have to start running Windows 7?