Windows on a mac

[MPAguy]

Is of has anyone run Windows off their Mac using boot camp or parallel? How was it?

[TakeruK]

I have not, but my friend did this for all of grad school. Encountered no real problems at all, and it worked really well for him. He mostly worked on the Mac OS but had to use Windows for a few specific software. 

[avflinsch]

I have been running Windows under Parallels for a specific app where there is no decent Mac equivalent for the past 8 or so years. The only real issue is that the function keys that are used in the app require pressing the fn key on the keyboard in addition to the function key when using them.

I only do this on my iMac, for the few times that I need the app on my MacBook, I just suffer with the crappy software that is available for OSX.

FWIW - there is no decent 3270 terminal emulator for a Mac, plenty of good ones for Windows,

[camth]

You could always use a virtual machine like Virtual Box that's what I do for windows and Linux on my Mac