Thanks everyone for the replies and advice--it seems like Bootcamp is the way to go--forgot fusion and parallels only emulate windows. My personal reasoning for wanting to use a Mac is quite simple, generally Macs have more processing power then PCs, and also don't run into nearly as much problems as PCs do either. Only problem is that they don't make that many great games for Macs as they do PCs because unfortunately PCs are more dominant in the world