If you've attended my hacking course in the past, you'll know that I like Mac's and you'll know why. While no operating system is perfect, OS X has been very good to me over the years. Fusion makes our lives a bit smoother by allowing to run Windows within OS X, so we can hang on to all of those apps that don't work in OS X (and without a reboot).
Well the latest Fusion update gives me support for all 8 CPUs on my MAC pro, even if you don't have 8 CPU's they clain 35% increase in application performance and 500% increase in 3D performance. As you may recall, 3.0 gave us the ability to run DirectX games within Windows 7 within our OS X. Yes the game would load, and it was fine for logging in to check the broker of a MMORPG, or some other brief activity but it's not something you'd want to spend a lot of time in. Well, with 3.1 I was able to launch TF2 via Steam within Windows 7, log into a server and quickly and smoothly make some kills. Very nice improvement. One thing to keep your eye on is the amount of RAM allocated to your virtual machine.
VMware also supports Unity, which is the ability to run a Windows application, in it's own window within OS X. In other words, the app, while running within the guest OS, appears in the host OS as though it's native.
There are many other new features as well, and it's a free upgrade if you're running 3.0 so go ahead an upgrade already!
It should also be noted that a similar upgrade is available for VMware Workstation (7.1) that boasts similar performance upgrades, based on optimizations for i3,i5, and i7 CPUs, also improved graphics support. Workstation costs approximately double what Fusion does, however you can deploy VM's to ESX from it with ease, and it supports snapshots, which are an essential feature for Malware Analysis. I've got both Workstation and Fusion and I'm very happy with each.
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