Hi, I'm an experienced Windows user currently considering switching to a MacBook Pro for my personal notebook. I have some questions that hopefully some kind soul will not mind answering for me? a) I'm into scripting in a serious way and would need to be able to run Windows Powershell, Perl for Windows (Strawberry or ActivePerl) as well as Ruby and possibly Python all from the Windows 7 client. For each of these hosts I have IDE's and tools, such as PrimalScript and a number of text editors which deliver the best possible environment for developing in those langauages. I presume that there would be no issues whatsoever surfacing any of this in Parallels, to run within the OS X GUI? Including Powershell console / command console etc? b) Would it be possible to install my W7 into Bootcamp then make that my Parallels W7 too? So that I could boot into W7 when I knew I was going to be having a heavy Windows session and "dip into" that same W7 instance from Parallels when maybe I'm just playing around on the Mac. Which will hopefully be a lot of the time! c) Would the advice from experienced Parallels users be to pick one method or the other? Either bootcamp OR Parallels. I noticed a couple of posts that talked about Win activation issues doing things this was as the base HW will report that there have been more than 3 changes. Has that settled down now? Is there a guaranteed way to avoid that situation? As part of my set up with the Mac I'd also intend to buy a copy of W7 to run with it and I don't have money to burn so this would have to work correctly. d) What would the performance be like running on the 2.4 i5 MacBook Pro with the 5400rpm drive? I won't be running games or anything like that. I would sometimes run Office 2010, Visio 2007 and the programming IDE's already mentioned; I presume that it would run _really_ well, is my expectation correct? e) Just wondering....has anyone tried editing Windows code in Mac ( say 'textmate' ) then trying to send the output to say for example the Windows Scripting Host or Powershell? Would that work, I mean all you are _realy_ doing is passing the script/text file to that application as input and capturing the output. If the W7 host (WSH/PSH) is really exposed in the current environment then why should that not work? Not a deal breaker for me, just curious. I'm aware that copying/pasting text between the OS's will be possible. Many thanks, Stuart
