Parallels or VM Fusion? Which best to run WinXP in Mac OSX?

Parallels or VM Fusion? Which best to run WinXP in Mac OSX?

Here's one reviewer's take on it (Parallels for XP; Fusion for Vista).

Unfortunately, it's going to be hard finding a useful side-by-side comparison, but I was told by people at an Apple store that Fusion was better. I own it, use it, and have no problems with it, but without actually using Parallels, I can't say if one is any better than the other. I can recommend Fusion without reservation, though.

Parallels tends to get updated fairly regularly, and they listen to customers (they have a decent customer forum there).

I still need to build a system though so that I can run my Zune on the Mac (which Parallels supports in the latest version).

Either really....I've tried both on the iMac at home and they both work wonderfully.

I run WinXP in Fusion with no issues. On my MacBook, Vista is just tolerable using Fusion, but I can spend hours working from home using the XP VM.

I've never tried Parallels, I just went with Fusion because we use other VMWare products at work.