On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Robert A. Virzi wrote: > I've been very happy with Parallels, especially now that I have a > full 2Gb of RAM. It wasn't working well with 1Gb, slowing down > both the Mac and Windows sides of things (spinning beachball). Yeah, my experience with Virtual PC on the PowerBook with 512MB was so close to medieval torture that I bought 2GB right ahead for the MacBook. Parallels runs so smoothly that you could run it in full screen mode and fool anyone with a XP, FreeBSD, Fedora, ... (Plan 9 not yet :-).