I concur, and if you need Windows apps, like Visual Studio, just run them in Parallels. Now if you are writing (web) applications which you're going to deploy t

I concur, and if you need Windows apps, like Visual Studio, just run them in Parallels. Now if you are writing (web) applications which you're going to deploy to, say, Ubuntu, then do yourself a favor and, even though OSX is *nix, develop them in an Ubuntu VM on the Mac -- that will save you a ton of trouble.