Anyone running RH on Mac with VMWare Fusion?

Seriously disgruntled with Microsoft after a weekend
troubleshooting issus on my pc and getting nowhere. I'm at a point
where I either have to buy a new PC running Vista, or make the leap
to Mac. Have talked to a couple of friends who prefer VMFusion to
BootCamp or Parallels, but none of them are technical writers. I
use RoboHelp extensively (will likely be upgrading to RH8 and
generating AIR Help for a new, huge project), and also use the rest
of the Tech Comm Suite quite a bit. Have several customers who I
still have to create manuals for in Word (blah)too. Appreciate any
input as this is a major (and expensive) decision!
Thanks,
Katie
Katie Carver
Senior Technical Writer
Docs-to-You, LLC

Yeah, I noticed that. However, I know there are others
currently running RH on Mac (founds some posts from November). A
year ago, I would've been the last person to ever consider making
the leap to Mac. But after talking to several people who insist
that the kind of setup I'm considering is the best of both worlds,
I'm really giving it some thought. Adobe's "official" support isn't
an issue for me as I've never called them, and worst case scenario,
I will still have my 1-year-old PC running XP to fall back on once
I reformat the hard drive and start fresh with it.
Katie

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