$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade, it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch.
I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade key after purchase while it only took VMware 3 hours to answer my question regarding Fusion 4.)
On my account page, license section, they've put this notice:
"Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4, Workstation 8, Site Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19. If you have questions, please contact License support."
So maybe upgrade prices will be available next week.
I've been experiencing the same issue...this was the response from tech support.
"As I understand the issue that since upgrading from 6 to 7, OSX now requires login twice with filevault2 startup volume, and takes much longer to boot.
I regret the inconvenience caused.
In order to resolve the issue, please follow the steps given below:
1. Click on Apple icon on Menu bar and select 'System Preferences'.
2. Under 'Personal' you can see an option 'Security & Privacy' click on it.
3. Select 'FileVault' tab there you can see 'Turn off FileVault'.
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$49 full price isn't that bad compared to Parallels 7. Not only you have to pay $49 for an upgrade, it will also slow down your boot time drastically[1]. VMware Fusion user can get P7 for $29[2] but from my experience I'd rather not switch.
I upgrade to P7 few days ago, and today I'm switching to Fusion 4 hope to never become Parallel's customer again. (Unrelated note, it took Parallels 7 hours to send me an upgrade key after purchase while it only took VMware 3 hours to answer my question regarding Fusion 4.)
[1]: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=113543
[2]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/vmwareoffer/
On my account page, license section, they've put this notice:
"Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4, Workstation 8, Site Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19. If you have questions, please contact License support."
So maybe upgrade prices will be available next week.
Thank You!
Wow, from [1]:
I've been experiencing the same issue...this was the response from tech support.
"As I understand the issue that since upgrading from 6 to 7, OSX now requires login twice with filevault2 startup volume, and takes much longer to boot.
I regret the inconvenience caused.
In order to resolve the issue, please follow the steps given below:
1. Click on Apple icon on Menu bar and select 'System Preferences'.
2. Under 'Personal' you can see an option 'Security & Privacy' click on it.
3. Select 'FileVault' tab there you can see 'Turn off FileVault'.
Really, that is their solution? Ouch!
That is an entirely fair point. I was going off the memory of an $80 price point from 2, and a fairly cheap-sh upgrade to 3.
[edit - instead of replying to myself]
In any case, I'll hold off a patch release or two. Heck, I haven't even installed Lion yet on my primary dev machine.