[rogerg (Roger)]

Hi all,

I need to replace my aging laptop. I am still deciding between many options. One option I am considering is an mac, such as a Macbook Pro.

Pro's:
- Screen quality and graphics suitability (photography/photoshop) is apparently great (please confirm?)
- Neat, compact, hardware look & feel
- Able to develop iOS applications

Con's
- Everything else I have (asside from iPhones and iPads) is windows. All my software is windows, everything on the home LAN is either NAS or windows, etc.

So..

Options to run Windows on a mac seems to be:
- Virtual machine running inside Mac OS.
- Dual boot

I would like advice on how this works, how useable it is to run windows app's, any comments on use of a Mac laptop vs a comparably priced Dell or Toshiba, drawbacks, etc.

A specific question I have: If I want to run a virtual machine on a mac using something like vmware presumably I would need to buy not only a vmware license but also a windows license and other software such as Office licenses I want to run inside that virtual machine, and at non-OEM prices?

Thanks,
Roger.