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Intel Core 2 Duo or higher Intel-based Mac required (Intel Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported.)

For the sake of consistency, I'll cover Parallels first and follow up with VMware Fusion's results.

Differences are covered, and where there's a directly comparable result between the two apps, I've awarded a winner for that category. VMware's feature updates sounded familiar-3D performance updates, Lion-specific interface enhancements, and OS X 10.7 virtualization support-so we decided to throw both programs into one review. Shortly after we started reviewing Parallels Desktop 7, VMware released a major update to its rival consumer-oriented virtualization app VMware Fusion, now at version 4. (Read our original Parallels 6 and Fusion 3 reviews for more on the older versions.) We stripped the hype wrappers off of the new Parallels Desktop 7 and VMWare Fusion 4 to see who's the baddest, and who's just bad. The powerhouses of Mac OS X virtualization both got beefy updates in the last few weeks and they're begging for comparison.