i'm making the move to mac (i know i know) but honestly the biggest kink for me is losing directory opus. i don't care for the max file manager, i don't even like the windows 7 file manager.. does anyone have experience with parallels? i'd be getting a macbook pro i5 2.53 8gb ram if that helps any. people play 3d games in parallels so if i can run opus flawlessly that would be amazing.
What does mac do that Windows doesn't? 
they make much better notebooks, and on a mac you can boot with osx or windows so you really have the best of both worlds.
Windows is already the best of both worlds
Anyway, if it runs Windows, then there's no reason Opus shouldn't work fine.
LOL, what's better? The expensive white plastic? Sorry, Apple is more intuitive, but also more restrictive.
the display for one, im getting a 1680x1050 16x10 matte 15.4" display with remarkable color accuracy for a notebook. try finding that on a pc notebook, you won't. the touchpad on the macbook is lightyears ahead of anything on a pc and it makes a huge difference. the weight. a 15.4" macbook weighs less than most 13" pc notebooks.. and there's no pc notebook that even comes close to the macbook air. the build quality, the whole case is made out of aluminum, not plastic. trust me, i've been a loyal windows user for 20 years, but a macbook is a beautiful machine.. there's nothing on the pc side that really compares. i wish it had more ports though. and cost half as much, though there's plenty of deals to be found. if i was building a desktop though i'd stick with pc/win
anyways, still curious if anyones actually tried opus on osx, let me know thanks!
Yeah, they it´s more intuitive, but i can´t confirm that 
. For people who like to use the keyboard a lot it´s
by far inferior. & i think, the finder is the worst file manager (it doesn´t even deserve that name) i´ve ever seen.
Haha, iTunes and iPhone are best examples that I can't do what I want to do. But for most people it's intuitive!
But to be honest: Windows-7-Explorer? Also no go!
Opus should run fine within parallels (or any other virtual machine that runs Windows), but do you expect to be able to manage your OS X system using that, or just to run Opus inside the virtual machine, and maybe use it for some data files which are shared between the two machines?
If you're planning to use Opus as a file manager for OS X, via parallels, then I expect it will work but only to a degree. Anything running within the Windows VM would only be able to see the folders you have shared with the VM. That would presumably be done via a network drive (between the real machine and the virtual machine) or some kind of mounted drive (not sure what parallels does exactly). You wouldn't be able to use Opus exclusively as there would be some OS X system maintenance tasks which could only be done within OS X itself.
Running software within a VM is like running that software on a completely separate machine, except that what you see the programs running on the two computers on a single screen, and the (virtual) network connection between the two computers is extremely fast.
If you're thinking of running Windows via BootCamp (i.e. directly on the hardware, instead of OS X, and not inside a virtual machine), then that's the same as running Windows on a normal PC, so that won't be any different to what you're used to.
PS: FWIW my 2-year-old Dell laptop has a 1920x1200 15" screen. But the MacBook Air is nice hardware if that's the kind of ultra-slim machine you want and you don't mind paying for it (plus the hidden costs of a Windows licence and parallels if you want to run both of those).
thanks, it would just be for managing non system/program files like photos, music, video, documents, etc.. so would i be able to partition my drive in three, one for osx, one for windows 7/bootcamp, and one for media and then be able to access that third partition with osx like normal AND opus through parallels? i've never run a vm before, sorry if thats a stupid question
as far as laptops, your 2 year old dell has a 16x10, but the new dell workstations have 16x9 screens, at least the 15" model does, and it's quite bulky. same with hp elitebooks.. and they both cost as much as a macbook. i've looked long and hard, believe me
I think so, yeah. I have not personally used parallels but I'd be really surprised if it doesn't let you share a drive and/or folder between the two machines. (You'll certainly be able to do it via a network share if nothing else.)
cool thanks!