How painless to transition to a Mac and run VMWare Fusion to access my Windows-Dependent Applications

I have just invested in an iMac, and I can tell you how easy it was for me to convert to it. Yes, there are a few things to get used to, but I can tell you that those transitions were painless. For those who are hard-core gamers, nothing beats a Windows XP box for the best games out there. So, the solution is simple: do a dual-boot system with the iMac.

The steps were painless:

1. Upon opening my iMac with OS X 10.5.6, I set up the partition with Boot Camp.
2. Installed XP on the Boot Camp Partition (to start the Boot Camp Partition, use the "Option" Key, very important)
3. Put the OS X DVD in to the SuperDrive, and the drivers automatically installed the drivers onto XP.
4. Booted in OS X, and purchased and installed VMWare Fusion (Parallels is an alternative)
5. Opened the Boot Camp Partition with VMWare Fusion.

Pretty simple. Now I have several ways of using the Boot Camp Partition:

1. For hard-core Windows games: Boot right into the Boot Camp Partition.
2. For other Windows-dependent applications: Use VMWare Fusion in Unity Mode to run my Windows Applications seamlessly on the Mac. (Parallels has a similar function called Coherence)

If I only knew this sooner, I would have transitioned earlier. My only dependent app is Adobe, so in my next upgrade, I am switching over, and I can say good-bye to Windows forever.