Brilliant!.  I'm just about sold.  I mainly recall reading users complain that most Poser-DS   Mac versions of any add-ons are made available so much later - if at all- than pc ones.
So that gives me pause but  I'm reading up on the crossover and winebottler apps too, thanks esther and MN :)    I have a beautiful HP 28" monitor which is less than a year old which I plan to couple with the Mac, though I just read of a couple of ppl in a Mac user group who had probs with setting up in a dual capacity -they just mirrored instead of spreading the desktop.

This was just what I needed, thank you all  so much :)