Parallels vs. VMWare Fusion

Maybe this is an unfair comparison considering I am using VMWare 2 and Parallels 5. I have been a pretty firm VMWare fanboy for quite some time, but I have to say after using parallels 5 for a week now, I am frickin' SOLD. I have read that Parallels 5 is supposed to be faster, and it is, but WOW, it's a LOT faster. The biggest thing, though is the fact that it properly focuses windows of the guest OS when in Unity/Coherence mode. I am on an older MacBook Pro, it's a 2.16GHz Core Duo, with 2GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM hard drive. As I type this I am running Safari on OSX and Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005 Mgmt Studio, and IE 8. There is... 5% CPU usage and memory consumption is hovering around 70% (and I have 768M allocated to the guest OS, which is XP SP3).

I'm seriously impressed. I think I see a competitive upgrade in my future :) And just for Gheri, yes  I installed VirtualBox, it's ok. It's better than nothing, it's a little lower performance than VMWare.