How You To Switch To Mac Using VMware

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VMware Fusion’s migration assistant for Windows makes it easier than ever to transfer your entire PC to your Mac and make the most of your Windows software investment. Get the best of both worlds and have access to your Windows programs and all your files from your old PC directly on your Mac, whenever you need them.

• Designed for OS X Lion
• Even More Mac-like
• Turbocharged performance with up to 2.5x faster 3D graphics

Designed for OS X Lion

VMware Fusion 4 is designed for OS X Lion. The updated user interface makes working with your Windows applications quicker and easier. Launch Windows applications from LaunchPad,  move from Windows to Mac with a single swipe in Mission Control and beautiful high-resolution icons. It just works. VMware Fusion 4 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard).Launchpad 

Optimized to leverage key technologies available in OS X Lion, VMware Fusion 4 lets you customize Launchpad to also include your favorite Windows applications so you can launch them in one click.

Mission Control
Optimized for OS X Lion, VMware Fusion enables your Windows applications to be viewed in Mission Control so you have a bird’s-eye view of not just your OS X Lion applications but all your Windows applications as well.

Full screen Windows Programs
With VMware Fusion 4, Windows programs can be viewed in full screen so every pixel of your screen real estate is utilized. You can even have multiple full screen Windows programs in Spaces and swipe between them.

Gestures Integration
Experience your Windows programs like Mac applications In Unity mode and use OS X Lion gestures to toggle between full screen Windows and Mac applications, access Exposé, show Launchpad, view Mission Control or show your desktop.

Ultrafast Resume
Just like OS X Lion's "resume" feature, VMware Fusion allows you to suspend Windows and resume it in even less time than before so you can get back to exactly where you left off without having to reboot Windows and waste precious time.

Even More Mac-like

VMware Fusion 4 enhances the way you experience Windows applications on a Mac. From the new App Unity feature, to the redesigned user interface, and Time Machine-compatible Snapshots, everything has been refined to give users an even more mac-like experience when running Windows applications on a Mac.Next-generation Unity 

App Unity now allows you to fully integrate Windows programs to OS X Lion by adding them to Launchpad, searching them using Spotlight or accessing them directly from the Mac applications folder.

Brand-new User Interface
VMware Fusion 4 has been updated to provide maximum productivity when working with Windows applications. From the installation experience, through disk management and snapshots VMware Fusion has been revamped to provide the most Mac-like experience. VMware Fusion just "gets out of the way" so you can be more productive.

Single Window mode has been completely redesigned to allow users to see more apps in smaller screens by removing the bottom status bar whilst adding access to key controls of the virtual machine in the top left corner.	Taking cues from Mac System Preferences, Virtual Machine settings have been redesigned to offer an even more Mac-like look and feel.	The new Virtual Machine Library in VMware Fusion 4 offers a fresh new look to better keep an eye on all your virtual machines and their respective status.

Time Machine Compatible Snapshots
Protect the state of your virtual machines by using Snapshots to capture the state of a virtual machine at any given time or at regular time intervals with the AutoProtect feature. The new Snapshot view offers a tree view of all your snapshots so you can better access them and go back to the Snapshot you want.

Snapshots are also Time Machine compatible so you can keep your Mac and all its virtual machines backed up without filling up your backup drive with unnecessarily files.

Better Performance. Faster Graphics. Outstanding Reliability.

With a highly optimized 64-bit engine and multicore processing faster than ever, VMware Fusion 4 will let you run Windows and Mac applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without sacrificing on reliability.

With more than 2.5x faster 3D graphics and support for OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 graphics VMware Fusion 4 will make running highly demanding 3D applications like AutoCAD 2011 a breeze.

Great New Learning Center

Get the most out of VMware Fusion 4 with the new learning center. Learn how to get started, transfer your entire PC to your Mac or install a new copy of Windows through step-by-step easy to view video tutorials.

Lion Squared

VMware Fusion 4 now supports OS X Lion in a virtual machine. Get more from your Mac by running OS X Lion, OS X Lion Server, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and Mac OS X Leopard Server in virtual machines. VMware Fusion 4 is the best way to develop and test new applications for the Mac and iOS.

Encrypted Virtual Machines

Security is at the heart of VMware Fusion 4 with the ability to encrypt virtual machines and password protect them to provide another layer of protection around sensitive data.

Pause Feature

If you are running multiple operating systems at the same time and want to quickly free up valuable system resources for more important tasks, the new “Pause” feature will instantly pause the selected virtual machine and free up their CPU and RAM allocation without having to suspend or shut down.

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