Looking for advice on best way to setup Fusion before just starting

I plan to buy a Mac and install VMware Fusion to run my Windows apps at the same time.
When I get my Mac, the first thing I'm going to do (recommended on this forum), it reinstall OSX and not include uneeded features like other languages, etc (to save space).
Once I have OSX up and running, and I install Fusion, will it then convert an amount of GB to NTFS allocating that portion to Windows?
Or, should I first partition the hard drive before/as installing OSX?
I understand this stuff in Windows but am brand new to Mac so just want to make sure I go about it the right way from the start.
I definitely DO NOT want to to the BootCamp thing as want my Mac environment up all the time (for email, primarily) and just launch Microsoft Visual Studio and other Windows apps as needed for work. I figure if I get 4GB RAM total, I can allocate 2GB to Windows when Fusion is running. Then when I close Fusion, I have all 4GB there for running Logic Pro and everything else on the Mac.
Thanks,
Ron

Hi rcook349;
Instead of doing an Erase & Install, what I do is use Monolingual to remove the extra languages.
Another thing that will return more disk space that languages is to remove printer you are never going to own. I found that saved me almost twice as much space as the languages.
I can say anything about running Windoze because I don't allow anything from M$ on my Macs.
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