[Greg McKaskle]

I don't remember whether I've posted this here, but a few months ago, I tried out Parallels and the FIRST LV code. The networking was a bit confusing at times, dealing with virtual NICs, and if you don't have plenty of RAM, you will get hit with some penalty boxes as things swap, but it does work. I used a MacBook for some of development of the vision code.

On that same machine, I also had LV for Mac, but rarely used it since the RT doesn't run on the Mac anymore. My advice would be to go for boot camp or bulk up on RAM and use a VM such as Parallels. If you are also able to convince local sales office or a member of the NI academic department to seat you with a Mac version, you will be able to use it as a dashboard (sans vision), and you could do some modeling and data investigation. But don't think that it will do everything transparently. Unfortunately, the I/O layers don't allow for that.