[big'ol_freeper]

If you need to emulate, don't use Microsoft emulation. It does slow things down. Use Parallels:

Parallels Desktop

It is a much superior product.

[LibWhacker]

Thanks!

[cynwoody]

If you need to emulate, don't use Microsoft emulation. It does slow things down. Use Parallels:

Parallels Desktop

It is a much superior product.

VMware's Fusion is the emulator said to impose the least overhead.

CNET Labs reviewed the two products recently. Their Photoshop benchmark ran in 120 seconds under OS X on an eight-core Mac Pro. Under native Windows Vista (Boot Camp, zero emulation overhead), the benchmark took 201 seconds. VMware Fusion took 271 seconds, and Parallels needed 516 seconds.

It's interesting how much slower the benchmark is under native Windows than under native OS X. Either Adobe did a much better job of coding the Mac edition of Photoshop or Vista is marbled with overhead!