Dell vs Mac for Poker/Business

[Jonathan]

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the problem with parallels is that both OS are sharing the system resources though, so performance may lag. That is the trade off.

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Yes. There will be a performance hit under parallels compared to boot camp.
But the overhead of running under parallels is very slight......something
under 10% or so. A macbook with 2.16Ghz CoreDuo2 and 2GB Ram can
handle it with ease.

In my own experience, I can have mail, browser, and IM programs loaded on
OSX, and be 4 tabling PokerStars with PAHUD and PokerTracker, and my
total cpu utilization will be under 15% or so. I have no performance
problems, and the performance of all poker programs on the mac under
parallels far exceeds what I was experiencing with my older Dell Inspiron.

Jonathan