Is worth mentioning last night I laid back with the MacBook Pro 17" and watched a netflix OnDemand movie without a hitch. This is pretty slick considering Netflix OnDemand service only works with Windows machines as it is dependent on the Windows Media Player 11. Obviously this is a lame duck for Mac and Linux users but with VMWare's Fusion it was no sweat. And restarting the virtual instance of XP home from the suspended state is redonkulously fast.
This was also watching over my wifi network using full screen mode so this is pretty impressive. I tried this a few month back with Parallels and it was a no go. The install experience for the Netflix plugin is typical Microshaft style crap and takes you through endless prompts and upgrades, DRM upgrades, etc... but once you are there it is worth the functionality... now if I can just get something besides movies made before 1979 from netflix ondemand!
I am officially done with Parallels and glad to receive the competitive discount rebate from VMWare. One other interesting note... I installed VMWare and then Windows XP and then booted XP in the background while working on coding something else and surfing the web. How's that for performance. :)
Just in case you don't recognize this screen shot.. this is when we find out that Soylent Green "is made out of people!" .. look out Chevron with your lame ass Human Energy marketing campaign. :)
