I saw a presentation a few months back on this and not only has it been done, but it seems to work quite well in an office environment.

There might be some license issue problems if you boot from the bootcamp partition. But other than that, it works quite well. I also have a macbook pro and use Revit through bootcamp an it works good. However if i had to buy a new laptop, i would probably go back to a much cheaper, much better specs and much faster pc computer.

My office is mainly concerned with any networking difficulties and/or speediness of the various apps... I love it for my personal setup, but can't attest to seeing it in an office environment.

StuntPilot - do you remember any of the specific offices mentioned in that presentation?

check you email

Setting up something like this is going to be one of my projects for the new year, does anybody have any thoughts on Parallels vs. Bootcamp? Looks like P is easier, but it might be more robust to use Bootcamp if the files are big, right?

for access to hardware video acceleration, yes

Bootcamp and Parallels each have their pros and cons.

Parallels:
-Cost 60-90$
-Allow you to work seamlessly between the to OS's on the fly.
-One downside is that your computer's resources are split up between the two OSs.
-I've experienced driver issues within Parallels.

Bootcamp:
-0$
-(Is what I'm currently using on my Mac Book Pro, with XP Pro installed).
-It will allow the OS to use full resources of the computer.
-All the necessary drivers come with the Mac OS CD (very convenient).
-Disadvantages include not being able to work seamlessly between the OS's. You have to boot into the OS you want to use. It is possible to exchange files between the partitions, however it's only free one way. If you want to see a Mac partition in Windows you'll need to pay for 3rd party software.

Macs are the best at running windows

does anybody else suspect gates and jobs of foul play?

no

we r doing th same.... we r a young office with <10 employees and starting the office in a only MAC environment and so far (5 months) no problems, we only use PC side for AutoCAD + rhino, everything else we do it on the MAC side, and we go thru the "dimensional portal" thru VMware FUSION... no problems so far, we will start also soon doing the local network, etc., so we will see, we should keep everyone else posted (all the ppl doing the same thing, or trying to), im sure lot of MAC (architects)users will appreciate it