By "parallel," they mean "Windows on top of OS X."
bummer.
Actually I may not even need to do all that really. According to a lifehacker article recently, the synergy project was picked up by google and is in development again. (allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse with multiple computers and in this case also multiple platforms including osx/windows, according to the comments). The really cool thing about synergy (other than that you dont need to buy a kvm switch) is that (amazingly) it supports clipboard sharing across the screens and across the computers.
In other words, dell on the left, mac on the right, single keyboard and mouse, functionally giving the illusion (for a great many normal processes anyway) of being a single machine. And whats more, its free!
I'm liking this bilingualism thing, in general. Its really nice to suddenly have two markets to choose one's apps and gadgets from. And macs and windows keep getting more integrated each year anyway. All thats missing is for apple to open up its software for third party hardware makers (or for the hackers to finally get that to work reliably). (yea, i'mnot holding my breath for either, but then we've seen a lot of suprising changes in strategy in this regard from apple in the last 10 years).
Probably the single biggest thing I didnt like about the mac is the lackof an equivalent for autohotkey (which I've come to depend on SO much). Everytime I type on the mac I really hurt because of that absence. I tried controllermate (a very basic key mapper with a neat design interface) but it basicallly couldnt duplicate the stuff I have in ahk. Also, everytime I hit a key combo that the foreground app didnt 'natively' recognize, the damn mac would ring its error bell. I verified this with the folks at controllermate. Apparently there's no way around that! Ugh. In other words its really just meant for single key remappings, not complex combination or let alone macros.
So in a way the mac has forced me to re-learn the keyboard that I once got to know in 9th grade typing class, lol. As I say, its like spanish. I took that in 9th grade too
and am thinking of relearning it