I recently made a post about wanting to buy a new PC so i could play on some other non mac sites since i have been using macs for the past three years. I still hadnt made up my mind on what machine to get and in the past month i have given the cereus network a try since they have their apple version now. After playing there a while i have to say that their mac version seams to suck really bad and i am beginning to wonder if its even worth buying a pc to play on sites such as cake/merge etc. I play mostly on FTP at the moment and have no problem in regards to their mac version and i really like their software the most. I have heard all about how the games are really soft etc. on some of these smaller sites but i dont want to invest in a new computer if the software sucks. So really my question is do you guys think it is worth it to buy a new system to play on these other sites or do you think that its worth just holding out and waiting for these sites to get better software and mac versions?

Get VirtualBox, install Windows on to the virtual machine, and see if that suits your needs.

VirtualBox is free, Windows isn't, unless you have a totally legitimate and not-downloaded copy.

sweet man, thanks for the reply. i looked into virtual box and it looks like it should do the job.

if you find that virtualbox is lacking for you, programs like VMware Fusion and Parallels are purchased alternatives that offer a bit better experience. Both have trial versions.

When i am setting up my virtual machine how much RAM should i allocate to it? My mac only has 2 gb now but i was thinking of getting more if needs be. My guess is if i am running a site in windows i will have anywhere from 4-6 tables open.

Virtual machines are one of the very applications where more ram is really important. To run a virtualized win7 I would suggest upgrading to at least 4gb ram, better 6 in this case.

You should at least assign 2gb to the virtual OS, although it runs with 1gb as well.

Windows 7 will be struggling with 1gb ram...