I've been using Fusion 5 all day on a MacBook Air 13-inch (running Windows 7) with the newly released OS X 10.8.
In addtion to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) Fusion 5 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard) and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). The USB installer will be especially useful for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina display owners that lack an optical drive.įusion 5 is compatible with any 64-bit capable Intel Mac (Core 2 Duo, Xeon, i3, i5, i7 processors) with a minimum of 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended). The boxed retail version of Fusion includes both a USB key and DVD in the box. System administrators will appreciate that Fusion 5 supports pre-licensing, registration and the ability to direct users to internal helpdesk resources directing from the Help menu in the software. The Fusion 5 meta-package (mpkg) is compatible with Apple’s Remote Desktop, JAMF’s Casper Suite and most other Mac imaging solutions.
It also includes user interface elements based on core Mac principles including the library (Finder) and Network Editor (System Preferences). If you want to run OS X Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard Server in a virtual machine, you can simply drag the install icon from your dock to the virtual machine wizard.
VMs are notorious battery hogs and, according to VMWare, Fusion 5 delivers up to 100 minutes of additional run-time on a single battery charge compared to Fusion 4.įusion 5 is faster and more efficient than ever before and VMWare has improved the performance of several key real-world use-cases that affect the productivity of our users every day.įusion 5 allows you to use common Apple shortcuts to control Windows applications, including a keyboard profile for Windows 8 that provides convenient access to Windows 8 functions such as the "charms" menu. On the hardware front, VMware Fusion 5 has been tuned to take advantage of fast SSDs, Retina Displays and USB 3.0.
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