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24th December 2006 - Link Blog

VMWare Fusion (virtualization for Mac). Competition is good. The race is on between VMWare and Parallels as to who can get 3D acceleration virtualized first (and let me play Half-Life 2 without using BootCamp).

Posted 24th December 2006 at 12:49 pm

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