Parallels

[François Chaplais]

I use VMWare Fusion notably for scientific computation, under  
bareBones windows XP (with network disabled ;-) ). The app has a  
benchmark, which places my 1 year old 2.4 Ghz MBP roughly at the same  
level as a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 and below a Dual Opteron at 2.1 GHz.  
(with the very first release of Fusion, it even topped the Opteron).  
So this a very decent config in terms of horsepower.
On the other side, it is fair to say that most games do not work with  
these virtualization things.
As I only have a mac studio version of rev, I could not test the IDE,  
but a compiled stack of mine ran smoothly in this environment.

To make it short, and if you are not into games, Fusion is a very  
good investment. (my elder son uses Parallels and is happy with it).

Take care
	François