[frankenMonkey]

True, they are well screwed together and work...

no, they don't even do that. my 8 month old dell latitude d600 is a piece of crap - battery just gave out. it, and its windows operating system is just plain unstable. on any given day something goofy happens. i've run a windows emulator on a mac and it's much more stable - never crashed.

[Swordmaker]

i've run a windows emulator on a mac and it's much more stable - never crashed.

One of the really nice things about running Windows of any flavor on a Mac in VirtualPC is that ability to make a complete copy of the virtual PC C: drive, stick it in an out-of the way corner of your harddrive. The next time your VirtualPC installation of Windows XP Professional gets a spyware, don't bother to clean it... delete it. Bring back a copy of your backup and away you go... takes about 2 minutes!