Paralels is popular with Mac users, but you’ve also got another option...boot camp. Not that Macs are Intel based, you can install windows on them and dual boot if neccessary. If your only need for Windows software is the MS Office suite, be aware that plenty of other programs read and write Office formats natively now. I use a suite called Neo Office, which is a port of Open Office with Mac graphics and toolbars (that is to say, it’s an “aqua native” program). Apple also has a very reasonably priced office suite called iWork, that has a word processor that not only read and writes Word formats, it also doubles as a basic desktop publishing program like Adobe Acrobat. Numbers and Keynote, the spreadsheet and presentation apps, are also MS Office compatible.
Or you can just shell out money for Microsoft Mac port of Office if you’d like.
The only complaint I have about the Mac is the Safari browser. Its functionality is pretty basic. Its not what I expect with Apple software. As soon as you get your Mac, download Camino, the Mac port of Firefox.
Just curious... what do you find lacking in Safari?
Um, no. FIREFOX is the Mac port of Firefox. Duh.