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Its certainly possible to go through life with a Mac and do all the work-arounds but if I was a new hire devoted to Apple I would buy a cheap Windows machine for work related stuff. Keep your Apple and enjoy it, but surrender to the Borg as far as Delta is concerned.
I essentially use the Windows partition of my mac as a second windows machine. The only time I ever boot it up is to do required windows-only DL stuff. The rest of the time I don't even think about it. I have a 1TB HDD, so surrendering 30Gb to a windows partition was a small price to pay. That said, I was fairly comfortable doing a partition, installing windows, & finding & installing the appropriate drivers for a Win7 install on a Mac. Not everyone will be, and for them buying a cheap burner netbook is probably good advice.