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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deckyon" data-source="post: 1308021" data-attributes="member: 197651">Even CS5 will be noticeably slower in anything but Bootcamp.  Any time you start sharing hardware resources (as in virtual machines) you really cut your processing power.  Other than Office, the apps you mention will not be worth using at all in a virtual machine.I will highly recommend Bootcamp.  It will take up no more room than the VM image you create in either Fusion or Parallels.  It will be running natively on the hardware, the drivers are there already and it will not slow down the machine at all.  It is just dual booting between OSX and Win7.  Oh, and I only recommend Win 7.I use my Bootcamp for Steam and Halflife (still love the game) as well as Rifts and CS3 and Vegas Pro (video editing).  I have never had an issue and man, it is FAST.</blockquote>