Does not look to be the case. And to your previous question, you can treat the VM as a separate computer - install fresh Windows (I run XP for speed and sanity sake), install whatever other programs you want to use in Windows (Office, and some redundant time-saving ones like Acrobat, Firefox, etc.), and boot it up simultaneous to your OSX environment whenever you want to use any of those. I tend to stay away from the Unity feature since I tend to have a lot of windows open, but you could edit an Excel spreadsheet in Office 07 while browsing TS in Safari on OSX side by side with it.

 

Cool...I ordered a MacBook Pro 15" (3 GHz, 500 GB @ 7200rpm, 8 GB RAM) and it is currently in Shanghai...should get to me by early next week...very excited!!!

Oh, and I went with the anti-glare screen.

 

Im sure we don't get the screen option. Just glossy, which is what i have and it does get annoying sometimes, but i'll quit my complaining now and watch some Lucy Lawless titties.

 

Very nice. We have similar spec. The anti-glare is the way to go.

 

I bought the same mbp; running Parallels with crystal mode -- its as if my windows 7 is running directly with the snow leopard apps

and you have enough horses to run both with no problem (I also have a 30 inch cinema running as my second screen)

 

Regarding the Parallels vs VMWare question I've been testing both for a couple weeks now.

Parallels 5 and VMWare Fusion.

Parallels is MUCH faster.

Parallels directly accesses the hardware, so the computer knows you have an Nvidia graphics card etc.

With VMWare, there is the VM interpretation layer inbetween which means VMWares drivers.

As such, I just find Parallels much faster at running stuff.

In work, with servers, VMWare is way better as its designed for that kind of environment, whereas Parallels is geared towards graphics and display within the virtual world.

Both modern versions tie into OSX really neatly and it means you can run the windows apps without seeing Windows at all.

My money would go to Parallels 5.