Anyone using P5 on a Mac???

I ran it on XP with:
My iMac 2.16 Core 2
My Macbook 2.16 Core 2

No issues. It ran like it always does.

I'm torn on my most recent machine as to whether to put it on the bootcamp partition, or run it in Fusion.
I pretty much only use it for midi loop creation these days, so it seems odd to have to shut down the Mac, boot to Windows, create the loops, shut down the Mac, boot to Leopard, etc.
With Fusion, I can fire it up alongside Logic Pro or Live, hack out some midi, drop it in my shared folder, import, and off I go.

As long as your midi/audio interfaces are fine, P5 on XP on Mac should be fine (who'd have ever seriously thought we could make statements like that... and mean it).

Take care,
- zevo

Excellent.
One thing about Fusion:
Double your RAM. 2GB won't cut it.

On my new machine, I have 6GB, and with Fusion running Vista 32bit and very little going on in either OS, I can get down to less than 1GB total available memory. If I fire up a second VM (ubuntu) at the same time, my machine starts swapping memory, which increases CPU usage, and bogs the machine down.

It's WELL worth it to spend the money to make things run smoothly. 4GB will make XP pure along quite well. 2GB... not so much.
We have loads of virtual machines here at work. I picked Vista at home, but we generally use XP at work, and in a max 4GB memory machine, I'd strongly suggest leaving Vista out and sticking to XP.

I'm experimenting now with Fusion and limited P5/Sonar use within it. It's actually quite promising, and I frankly didn't expect it to be. You don't get your audio device exposed "proper," but you do get WDM drivers for limited connectivity. If you set up a shared folder, you can swap data pretty easily.

I don't expect to be doing any serious DAW work within Fusion. For that, I'll bootcamp. However, it will be nice to fire up P5 for midi editing, or Sound Forge for Audio Editing, and NOT have to reboot the machine.

Very cool.

- zevo

Although you plan on using Windows XP, I wanted to let you know that some of the iMac models have integrated audio issues (i.e., snaps/crackles/pops) when the integrated AirPort wireless adapter is enabled in Windows Vista (i.e., when using Boot Camp).

Accordingly, you will most certainly want to use a dedicated audio interface if you plan on using a wireless network connection within Windows Vista. Additionally, I would recommend using Boot Camp to boot to Windows instead of running Project5 inside of a virtual machine.