Best software for Windows on Mac?

What is the best software to enable you to use Windows on the Imac? I'll be using this for some artwork/graphic intensive software so speed is definitely an issue. Also, this is probably a dumb question, but do I need to purchase Windows software in addition to the software to enable Windows?

You've got 2 choices.
1) BootCamp - you essentially boot right into Windows. You'll probably get the best performance this way, but you have to reboot to get to the Mac side of things.
2) Use a virtual Windows machine via Parallels or VMWare. Both your Mac and Windows co-exist at the same time, share files between them. I personally use Parallels for work to use a PC-only application and it runs great. Performance is great, I love being able to live in both worlds (when I have to). To me, this is definitely the most convenient. A colleague used VMWare and had a lot of trouble with it. But to be fair, I'm not sure if it was the software or the person. :-)
And yes, you'll need to purchase a copy of Windows to install.
Hope this helps.

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I am a new mac user and having trouble finding the best software for mac.
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Windows for mac and parallels desktop have been recommended to me.
There is such a significant price difference between the two, is there a difference in what they offer?
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OS X is the operating system on your Mac, it came free with the Mac you bought.
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Rick may be right because although i didnt think of it before i tend to have notoriuosly long classnames for my php classes and i have used samba on occasion (when rsync is out of the question for one reason or another) and never had a problem. I use kubuntu (feisty at the moment )with an ext3 filesystem. if i have a chance this evening ill give it a try and see what happens.
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