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VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7: A User’s POV

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September 24, 2011
by Ken Ng

It’s without a doubt that the very recent release of VMware Fusion 4 and Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac has invigorated the on-going comparisons between the two popular virtualization solutions for Mac users.

Both has its own merits and depending on your expectations and needs from the virtualization solution, both choices will deliver what it promises to you.

I’ve previously written an article here on why I thought Parallels Desktop 7 just beats More >

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Using Mac (or Linux) in a Windows dominated workplace

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July 4, 2010
by Ken Ng

It’s a (sad) fact that most corporate workplace are still using Windows as the only supported platform for work. It’s not that I’ve anything against Windows. Don’t get me wrong here. Instead, I personally think that if I choose to run Mac and Linux OS, so be it. Why should one get shun off just because the corporate standards and softwares only support Windows.

Now, what would your options be?

One is obviously to setup a dual-boot environment More >

Tip: Enabling VMX support for Dell Latitude E6400

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March 29, 2010
by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip if you’ve been trying to enable Virtualization support for the Dell Latitude E6400 and wasn’t able to. If you’re like me, you’d probably enabled all the settings available under the Virtualization section of the BIOS. Well, apparently, that’s a BIG mistake.

What you need to set is actually the following:-

  • Virtualization support – ON
  • VT for Direct I/O Access – ON
  • Trusted Execution – OFF

Where I got it wrong was to also More >

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