Lifehacker: “When I bought my first Mac last month – a 15″ MacBook Pro – I wasn’t thrilled about the $2000+ price tag (even though I did save a few hundred upgrading the RAM myself). But I wasn’t just buying one computer, I was getting two. Not only was I: 1) getting a Mac, a platform I’d long wanted to dive into, but 2) I was also purchasing a computer that could run a familiar old friend – Windows.”

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“Using the previously-mentioned virtual machine software, Parallels Desktop for Mac ($79.99), you can run Mac OS X and Windows (XP, Vista, you name it) side-by-side. Here’s how I’ve set up my Parallels installation to make working in multiple OSes easy and fun.” more…