What does it take to run Boot Camp, Fusion or Parallels

I am wondering about upgrading to Leopard to use Boot Camp, Fusion or Parallels. I have found that a significant amount of software that I want to run is not available in a Mac version. The other issue is that many programs I already have for Windows would be very expensive to replace with a Mac version. Thus I want to run a Windows operating system on my MacBook. I do not want to suffer from slow performance because the hardware is not robust enough. I would appreciate some honest chatter about what I need hardware wise to make this thing fly.
1 How much main memory should I have? I currently have 1GB.
2 How big should the hard drive be? I currently have a 75 GB drive with 45 GB available.
3 Anyone that has run Windows or runs both; am I simply better off buying a new HP and running Windows programs on a native Windows computer? I hate this alternative. However, I would rather use my computer than spend time trying to figure out why it is not working.
Thanx in advance

1. Parallels (and probably Fusion) should run in Tiger, though you would almost certainly want 2GB of RAM. With Leopard, 2GB would be the absolute minimum, I think, for Parallels and Fusion. With Leopard and Boot Camp, 1GB should not be a problem, but it shouldn't cost much to upgrade to 2GB which will be better.
2. Since you have 45GB available, you should be ok with Parallels or Fusion. With Boot Camp, you would probably be limited to about a 20GB Windows partition, but that is conceivably plenty. If you decide on Boot Camp, you would also want to back up your hard drive before installing Leopard, and then do an erase and install, not an upgrade or an archive and install, lest you both use too much disk space and/or run into the "some files could not be moved" problem. When installing Leopard, you may also want to select the option to not install languages and/or printer drivers, to save some disk space.
3. I don't see why you should buy an HP unless it has a graphics card and you feel you need a graphics card.
Boot Camp will run faster than Fusion or Parallels, but this is only relevant if your software is computation or resource intensive. Also, with Fusion or Parallels you would be limited to a smaller amount of Windows RAM, which, however, is also mainly relevant only if your software is memory intensive. With Boot Camp, you will get decent performance, but Leopard will take up more disk space, and Windows will require more disk space. This is why I supplied the disk-saving tip above, even though you don't currently have a lot of free disk space.

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