Thanks to all for the information.  It's making this purchase a much more  
simplistic decision.

Paul N.
>  
>  On 2007-10-25, Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com> wrote:
>  
>  > Has anyone tried running NetBSD on a MacBook Pro?
>  > Either native or under Parallels?
>  
>  I've run NetBSD on a MacBook under Parallels; now I'm running it under
>  VMware Fusion.  Both work fine, but I prefer VMware now as it allows me
>  too use all keys on the keyboard.  With Parallels, even though you can
>  use Command in the guest operating system, it passes it also on to the
>  Mac; this makes it effectively impossible to use Command as Meta, e.g.,
>  Parallels will quit when you try to refill text in Emacs ...
>  
>  BTW, for synching NetBSD's time to that of the Mac, I'm using timed,
>  which, if you ask me, is a much better choice for this kind of task than
>  ntp.
>  
>  Greetings
>  
>  -- 
>  Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                               <mxp@dynalabs.de>
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