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Nothing in there stood out to me. Does this upgrade cost money? Why would I want to upgrade?

2 is especially slow for me. I'll probably upgrade just to see if it gets any faster. Pretty sad.

If you're disappointed with the quality/performance of Fusion 2, why would you pay more and blindly upgrade to 3 without actually knowing that it has measurably improved?

Either way, please report back after the upgrade. The 'new features' list isn't terribly compelling, but a genuine performance boost (on, say, a dual-core MacBook Pro, not just an 8-core MacPro) would be.

It works great for me. My system specs:

Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: MBP51.007E.B00

I can confirm that if I turn on the GT video card that I can actually play DoTA (Warcraft 3) in Vista at 1024x768 with no skipping. Obviously it doesn't balk at anything less complex (like Linux development and testing, which is what I usually use it for).

Edit: The support for multiple monitors is also greatly improved. I tend to like to connect my MBP to a second monitor, throw the VM on it, then fullscreen it. Works great.

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http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11004

I agree. Maddeningly slow.

Pity we can't all chip in a few bucks to test the upgrade.

What are your hardware specs, and how much ram did you give the VM? I have a mbp that is a few years old with 4GB of ram, and fusion has never been slow. I did just upgrade to 3 and installed a Win7 image and it runs seemingly like bare metal.

One big feature is thatAero is supported in Windows Vista and Windows 7 now.

But only on a GPU >= nVidia 9400

I've seen a couple of reports that this limit was removed in the final release. Can anyone confirm this?

While I can't say for sure because I don't have a mac with a video card that poor, I can say that I don't see any such limitation spelled out in the beta copy docs or options.

According to Microsoft Aero will be enabled in Windows 7 if a DirectX 9 compatible GPU with a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM is detected.

I installed Win7 earlier today and can confirm that it is not available on my old MacBook with GMA 950 GPU with 64MB RAM.

According to http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10959, the minimum requirements are either an ATI Radeon 2600 or an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M.

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