I know we don’t usually cover tech too much around here, but I wanted to share my experiences from this past weekend and earlier this week. If you have a Mac and want to run Windows, one of the easiest and best ways is to virtualize the OS. You can run Boot Camp, but then you need to restart and keep them semi-isolated. But what if you want to run both side by side? You have two real options: VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. Both recently came out with new versions that supposedly are the bees knees. I own Parallels 3 and paid for the upgrade to version 4 without thinking. What happened next wasn’t pretty.

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