Virtual Box or Boot Camp and What Flavor of Windows?

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volcs0 wrote:
What are your windows needs?

I've done a lot with Wine - and Codeweaver's Crossover (was free a few weeks back, but still a bargain)

I would stick with XP. I've yet to hear of any reason to go Vista, and it will slow down anything you are trying to do, from what I've seen.

VMWare Fusion is nearly free ($15AR here until 12/31). I would do that, if you want to really want to virtualize windows. Booting into bootcamp is a pain.
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?Redir=1&description=VMware-Fusion+1.0+for+Mac+with+a+free+upgrade+to+version+2.0-Utilities+Software&dpno=7721087

Ditto on XP. But I beg to differ on the Fusion/Parallels opinion. I have both (ver 3 of Parallels). I like Parallels least, Fusion only somewhat better and I'll happily reboot for Boot Camp. On the other hand, when I need to use Windows (thank God, not often - and less since I got laid off) I use it for a few hours, so a reboot is no big deal to me. YMMV, of course.