PS: If you wait until January 6 to purchase, you will more than likely be able 
to buy it from the new Mac App Store. Then you will not have to worry about 
preserving the original media and it will prompt you when free and paid 
upgrades are available.

C


On 2010-12-28, at 10:46, cm wrote:

> Hi Mac,
> 
> I have used Virtual Box, VMWare, and Parallels and in my opinion, the best 
> one is far and away Parallels. Not only for its superior speed, but also for 
> its simplicity and perfect integration with the Mac environment. Of the three 
> it is the only virtual environment that is exclusively Mac and it can thus 
> take advantage of Mac only interface and features.
> 
> It's a paid application, but well worth the outlay in my opinion.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carlo
> 
> 
> On 2010-12-28, at 10:33, McCallum Malcolm wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 26/12/2010, at 6:14 PM, cm wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Mac,
>>> 
>>> Just re-reading the wording of your question  I don't lay claim to being a 
>>> guru. :-) I can tell you some things I have learnt, however.
>> 
>> 
>> I have Virtual Box, is this enough or do I need Parallels to make life easy?
>> 
>> 
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