On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Perry Pellechia wrote:
Call me crazy but I am someone who would be (and is) interested in this. I use Corel Draw to make figures with (NMR) data for scientific publications. I also use it for making drawings that I use in the class I teach. While there might be other options available for the Mac platform I am not willing to give up the knowledge I have gained on the Corel products and Corel does not have a Mac version of this software.
The one problem I see is in trying to copy files from one OS to the other. A USB thumb-drive might come in handy as I'm not sure that the systems can read/write each others filesystems (NTFS, HFS+). If you can format the XP volume to FAT32 you'd be OK but will have trouble with large files (>4Gb).
I still think the virtual machine (VMware) option is better.
There are rumours that Apple is working on this for inclusion in OS X 10.5, but don't believe anything until you see it.
In the meantime, a company called Parallel has made a pre-release of their product available:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/06/parallels_offers_mac_vt_beta/ - Dave
