As usual, a couple of interesting items...and a few uninteresting ones:

[www.mupromo.com]

Buy VMware Fusion for $50, get 10 more Mac programs for free.

i would check vm's site. when i bought fusion, if i entered any serial from Parallel's they sold it for $19. any they really don't care where you got that serial. they just want you as a customer. don's know if that promo is still going. fusion has worked wonderfully for me.

dot.

PDF Pen and Drive Genius might be worth it to me. I don't need to run 'Doze, so Fusion thing won't help me. Thanks for posting Iron.

I may bite on this one. Only interested in VMWare to run SL from Lion (thanks to whoever posted the "oops" version of VMWare where that feature was enabled... I saved it in the event I ever bought VMWare). A few of the other apps look like they might be useful.

I have apps from the last MU promo (and will have more from this one) that I never use... perhaps the next Free Monday I will give them away.

Iron,

It's a good bundle. Just Fusion and Drive Genius alone are worth the $$$ if you don't already have one of them. Even if you don't use Windows. If it's Fusion 4.0, you can actually use it to run an earlier version of OS 10.x on your machine. For example, you can use Fusion 4.0 to create a virtual 10.6.x drive on your Lion machine. This was due to a bug in Fusion 4. They corrected it in Fusion 4.1.

Robert

so where can I download Fusion 4.0? I guess if I buy it now I get 4.1, but sounds like that bug in 4.0 was useful first time I heard about a good bug

I highly recommend PDFpen
the redacting is great
the OCR is mediocre though.. FYI

it chokes on large multiple page files when OCR'ing
Adobe Acrobat is more robust in this sense.

If you don't have any 2 of PDFPen, Fusion, or Drive Genius, it's a great deal. Unfortunately, I have the latter two.....(sniff)

Can Drive Genius replace Discwarrior?

Free,

It can but I'd say it's better used as a compliment to DiskWarrior.

Robert

Not exactly, IIRC. It gives you a comparable result, via a different means.

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Can Drive Genius replace Discwarrior?

If anyone has already bitten, can you verify what version of VMWare Fusion it is (4.0 or 4.1)?

Now, I am more confused about this bundle - okay, so can I use the included version of Fusion to run Snow Leopard on my Lion Mac?

I already have Drive Genius, but mine is an old version I also got with one of these bundles a few years ago. Mine is version 2, and Prosoft wants $49 just to upgrade to version 3.

Laser,

The answer is maybe. It depends on what version of Fusion is included with the bundle. If it's just 4.0, then yes. If it's v4.1 then no.

Robert

Bought this immediately when I got the promo in my email early this morning. I already installed Fusion and used the migration feature to copy my PC on to my iMac. I haven't tested the install yet other than looking at it briefly, but it went fairly quickly and seems to have brought everything over from the PC AFAICT, anyway.

The migration began showing 10 hours to do the transfer (My PC has about 50GB used) over wireless but I think it finished in a couple hours. If everything works, I'm going to recommend it to a client who wants to bring his Windblows stuff over to a new iMac 27" that he's buying on my recommendation. He already bought a MBA and I put Win 7 on it using boot camp. This will be easier for me if it works as well as it seems to have on my iMac.

Robert - it's version 4.1.1 that I DL-ed from their website. I didn't install from the MacUpdate bundle because I wanted to try it first. I had parallels on all three of my computers, but recently, after a full restore, on my iMac Parallels wanted me to go through registration again and I thought I'd give this a try to compare - my Parallels install on this computer was version 6 anyway.



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I'm pretty sure the VMware fusion serial number will work on any 4.x install.

Just buy the serial number and use the version that allows multiple OS installs.

This does NOT include the oops version of VMware.

But like the above posted said -if you can get your hands on that version, I would think the serial number would work.