New $49 MacUpdate promo bundle - Parallels, etc

[clay]

http://deals.macupdate.com

Not really anything here that interests me, but thought I'd share in case there are others. FWIW, I believe you can "gift" individual apps to others if you don't want them....so maybe a chance to just pay a smaller amount for only the apps you want if you can find a willing partner to pick up the rest.

[ADent]

There is Pick a Bundle running too - Rapidweaver seems the biggest name there.

https://www.pickabundle.com/

[M A V I C]

Thanks for posting. Tempting. I'd rather have Fusion.

[clay]

M A V I C wrote:
Thanks for posting. Tempting. I'd rather have Fusion.

I was a Fusion user as well for most of the past 5-6 years, but when I upgraded to ML and my version of Fusion no longer worked, I took the opportunity of one of these bundles to get Parallels along with some other useful apps for an attractive price. Quite honestly, I don't use virtualization enough to notice much of a difference between the two. I'm just doing testing of web apps, etc, so really all I need is IE, and both Fusion and Parallels will handle that for me.

[davemchine]

I use Parallels for PlayOn. I don't like giving up the cpu cycles but it does work.

[M A V I C]

clay wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
Thanks for posting. Tempting. I'd rather have Fusion.

I was a Fusion user as well for most of the past 5-6 years, but when I upgraded to ML and my version of Fusion no longer worked, I took the opportunity of one of these bundles to get Parallels along with some other useful apps for an attractive price. Quite honestly, I don't use virtualization enough to notice much of a difference between the two. I'm just doing testing of web apps, etc, so really all I need is IE, and both Fusion and Parallels will handle that for me.
I tested them both quite a bit a while back. The biggest issue I had with Parallels is that it pollutes the Windows VM registry with all sorts of crap. It did this by default and you couldn't tell it not to until after it did it. I performance tested Parallels and Fusion, and Fusion was a lot faster.

[Robert M]

Clay,

Thanks for the heads up! A thanks to Adent, too. The pickabundle deal actually has some good titles, i.e. Swift Publisher, Moneywell, etc. MacLegion has a bundle right now as well.



Robert

[bazookaman]

Robert M wrote:
MacLegion has a bundle right now as well.

I was going to mention that one too. Toast is the big draw there.