Boot camp or Parallels with Late 2008 MBP 2.8

Does anyone have any experience yet?
I need to use Adobe CS3, Wordperfect X3, and Autocad 2009. I still wanted the new MBP so I ordered it and it will be here next week.
I will be running XP Pro. Which is the more useful platform Parallels or BC.

Depends on how frequently you plan to use the Windows apps.
Boot Camp gives the best performance, but it's more inconvenient since you have to reboot over into Windows, then back to Mac OS X when you want to use that OS.
Parallels (or VMWare Fusion) uses the Intel CPU virtualization to run Windows (or Linux) at the same time as Mac OS so you can use them both at the same time. There is a slight performance hit caused by the virtualization, though, and you can't use all of the machine's RAM for Windows (some of it is needed to continue running Mac OS X).
I use Parallels on my MBP, and I'm very happy with it. The performance is very good, and I find it much more productive to run Windows apps side by side with my core suite of Mac apps. I'd only be inclined to use Boot Camp if I wanted to play Windows games, and/or if I spent a significant percentage of my time using resource-intensive Windows apps.
In your list, CS3 and Autocad performance would be the thing to focus on. Setting up Boot Camp means partitioning your hard drive, which is a bit of a commitment, so I'd suggest trying Parallels first. Get an evaluation copy of Parallels and give CS3 and Autocad a try in an XP virtual machine. You'll have to figure out how much RAM you can give to Windows and see how well the apps perform. If that doesn't cut it for you, then do the Boot Camp route.

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