[lendaddy]

Ok, that makes sense. But the competing views on compatibility are what is stopping me. For instance I KNOW that my wife has sent me files from her MAC (can't recall if they were office or .pdf or .Zip or what) but I could not open them. Others have said they have seen problems as well. Then there are those that say there are no problems or that if there are they are really caused by X Y or Z. But the point remains that people do/will have file problems between the two(for whatever reason) and my customers don't want that song and dance, they just want to open the file with a click.

Did that make sense?

So, if the parallels thing is every bit as reliable or more so than a windows machine(when running windows) and the files are identical then I would probably use Windows for everything and only browse in OSX. But, if my customers are sending me autocad files or other files where no Mac solution exists(or is a pain in the ass), then suddenly I'm back in the virus/ad-ware game (which is my only reason for considering this).