Adobe CS4 for Mac v Windows

I am starting out as a Freelance video editor. My sister is in fashion design. Due to our tight budget we plan on sharing the Adobe CS4.
I use a MacbookPro while my sister an HP laptop.
As a solution I thought of buying the Windows version of CS4 which I will run using Parallels.
Does it make sense? I had heard that there are significant performance impact when using a "virtual" machine than running it "native" on OS X. But then lately people have been telling Parallels is really good?
I am not too keen on having a CS4 Master for Windows instead of a Production Premium for Mac only. But if you people think there is no harm in it then it would save me a lot of money by buying one copy of multi-license Windows only.

As X says, you'll get better info from Adobe discussions. However - good though Parallels is, you will get something of a performance hit, especially when it comes to graphic-intensive applications. There is something of an overhead to virtualisation, although nothing like as bad as it used to be.
You could get round it by using Bootcamp if you don't mind the rebooting.
But go to the Adobe groups and ask someone who knows.

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