While that may work great, the only problem with option two IMHO is that it takes your Mac offline and that's not an option me. It sucks that Vue won't run via Parallels as that would be an ok interim fix. Aside from my hobby art and illustration work, I use my Mac to make a living, so at any given time it might be rendering video in FInal Cut and After Effects, have one of a dozen publications I'm designing in InDesign, be dealing with massive Photoshop files in various states of completion and of course running my business, answering emails, listening to iTunes, etc. Booting in Windows would take all of those simultaneous activities offline unless of course I duplicated/setup their PC equivalents and that just seems like a lot of extra work.

All that aside, I simply like working on a Mac as it does it all, does it adeptly and doesn't require me to play IT guy to keep it working. Hell, that's why I got a Mac to begin with ;)