Vista on Macbook 2.4Ghz?

Hi,
I am thinking of buying a Macbook 2.4Ghz but I need
Windows Vista Running on it as well. So I was wondering if
anyone had already tried it out and what they thought about the
performance of Vista on it, ignoring the fact that it would be slower than Mac
I was thinking of Aero enabled on Home Premium, with "gadgets"/"widgets" running.
So any helpful insight would be appreciated.
Thanks...

I have run vista on my 2.4 ghz imac and the performance was fine. not fast and no aero (I think thats a limitation of vmware). i would suspect given the integrated video of the imac, vista would run slower and probably if aero support is enabled probably would slow the macbook down considerable given it has problems running on a pc

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