1) Running parallel
2) Vista

In my opinion no 1 is already resource hungry but when couple up with no 2 somehow it doesn't gel well.
Vista 32 running natively in good spec hardware with 4GB RAM (though as usual will only detect 3.x) is too slow and sometimes hang (or too slow of response most of the time).

Running vmware but with XP Pro with 2.53 C2D and 4GB RAM. Not that bad. So far not sluggish at all. Maybe you can try with XP or with Win7 and see the performance first before plonking the cash on more ram

Bought TuneUp Media recently. Not bad tool for cleaning up the iTunes music library. Pretty fast. Basically it will add and repair ID tags where relevant.
Some of the songs which you burned and don't put a title into it, it will then try to fingerprint and suggest a title for it based on the match. So far quite accurate but as usual there will be songs that they don't have the fingerprint of it and manual work have to come this way. Well it cut off many hours by doing it manually if you have thousands of collection. It add or suggest cover as well. Now looks better when playing it on iphone/ipod

Not bad. In fact I got alot on non english song for example Chinese, Korean, Indonesian and even local Malaysian and it does the job quite good.
So far I've seen cases where not only it can't detect the local Malaysian song but it does not limited to that as sometimes it can't detect English song as well. Only good part is roughly based on my usage it won't be able to detect 10% of it. So in case you have 5000 songs and having 500 to do manually not that bad I guess rather than spending months to complete it.
Basic process is that it will scan your iTunes and create a playlist of good and bad. So those are the ones you need to clean. Simply drag those dirty playlist and wallah...It will fill up with the ID tags along with the cover if they can find it (so far so good). Some are exact match and some are good match so you can always verify it again if you're not sure or it might tell you a possible match

One page before this
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/202116/+600

So far I haven't found any free ones yet. Been searching for quite a while
Finally settled down with TuneUp. It's one great piece of software. Out of 3k plus MP3 I have, it can't find about 100 plus songs and that is a mix English, Malay, Chinese and Japanese songs that I have.
Couple it with Soundhound if you have an iPhone and it will work wonders if you really like to listen to music and having a nice library to go along with it. Few years ago I don't mind having rubbish MP3 gallery but ever since with iPhone, it's nice to have ID3 tag along with it where your can sort out by genres, have album cover to go along with it and you can do a proper search for it as well.
Only complaint I guess would be it can't detect for duplicates if you have any

Hey, you bought TuneUpMedia yet? If not yet put it on hold first.
Just bought my second mbp and I plan to install it with TidySong just to compare since it have the duplication detection as well. Reason being I copied my library from another mbp to this new one and it went nearly doubled. Being lazy bum and not much time to redo I might just give TidySong a try. Will feedback it later on. Plus to have one license for TidySong and another for TuneUp makes it much more worth it rather than have 2 lappy with TuneUp. Once both are in sync I can have another software running that will makes both lappy always in sync using this http://www.supersync.com/
It's free up to 25 music and you just need to relaunch it again. Knowing I won't have much music difference in terms of 2 lappy most probably just stick it on the free version

VLC
Skype
YM
aMSN
uTorrent
SuperSync
iTunes
iStats
Microsoft Office
Stuffit Expander
VMWare

@frega,
We have the same setting..lol
Safari + Adblock + ClicktoFlash

woops..more than 10

Just sharing a program useful to sync between multiple macs for iTunes. So far I've tried only syncing all my mp3 on iTunes across another mac. Back on travel so can't experiment more on the software capabilities. So far it was great. Got 2 pack license for both mbp. From what I know it can sync across WAN as well but not sure how the toll gonna be like since back home I use just Digi/Celcom/Maxis on HSDPA/3G/EDGE speed like...
Tried rsync but not really up to my expectation for mp3. It's ok for normal files but found problems on mp3

http://supersync.com/

What kind of help needed?
If you're asking if its possible to burn ISO files on Mac then yes. You can burn it using Disk Utility.

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Added on September 7, 2010, 2:02 pmOpenoffice I think...there are lots more if you are just looking for word processor

This post has been edited by viper-xs: Sep 7 2010, 02:02 PM