Installing Windoze 7 Pro and Office Via Bootcamp

Getting ready to install the above and had 2 questions for anyone with experience:
1: Any merits/cons to installing 64 bit vs 32 bit versions of both and,
2: Recommended partition space given currently used of 170 GB for OSX 10.6.8 with 830 GB remaining? Intended apps are commodities futures trading platform (NONE support OSX even for a $374B company...), radar detector software, Quicken, and maybe a few others; NO gaming.
Any advise suggested before I take the plunge...

Repartitioning is possible and easier with third party tools. But yes, it is a hassle. Go ahead with 100GB.
I'm not sure what needs you have that make virtualization with Parallels or Fusion not practical. I understand that customer support for Parallels may be an issue, but regarding performance, giving a properly configured virtual machine, using non-gaming, non-graphics intensive, "basic" apps can and often will be usable. For example, most people make the mistake of allocating more than one virtual CPU to the virtual machine "because I have a dual core CPU." But actually, most basic apps do not need more than one CPU, and so allocating just one CPU in the virtual machine avoids CPU scheduling issues.
And since you're basically running multiple OS' simultaneously, then you need enough RAM for the total of all the OS'. (e.g.: if you want to run Windows7 and Windows Server 2008 virtual machines at the same time, you'll probably need 6GB or more of RAM on the Mac. 2GB for Win7, 2GB for Win2008, 2GB for OSX & Fusion.) So with 4GB of RAM on the Mac, configure the virtual machine with 1vCPU, and 1.5-2GB of RAM. But realize that with just 4GB of RAM, you've probably used all your RAM so you probably won't be able to have Safari, Chrome, Mail, iCal and iTunes open on the Mac while the virtual machine is running.
Me personally, I use Fusion extensively on a 4GB Core2Duo Macbook Pro. It is what I tested Vista and Win7 along with Office 2007 and 2010 and various versions of Quicken for Windows. As long as I didn't run too much on the Mac side, the virtual machine ran fine. A virtual machine will never have as good graphical performance as running physically like in Boot Camp. But not having to reboot out of OSX is why I'll continue to use Fusion.
For more info:
Choosing the Right Virtual Machine Settings
Frequently Asked Questions about VMware Fusion (Avout halfway down, the section on Virtual Hardware)
(While it is for Fusion, the overal concepts will hold for virtualization in general.)

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