Of course if your not actually looking to "run Access" on your mac and just need "the data" - you could export the tables from MS Access into something (Excel tables?) that the Mac could readily read. Of course to utilize the data with complex relationships you would have to then imort the data into some roughly equivelent database. No simple task. If you want all the "forms" and other elements of a running MS Access -- a virtual macine running Windows is so far the only way. MS hasn't yet released Virtual PC for Intel mac -- And I hear that Vista will still be BIOS based.
Since last month, the news is that only 64 bit versions of Vista will run on EFI, so Vista-booting on an intel Mac is unlikely without interesting patches/hardware hacks.
Therefore, running an MS OS on an intel Mac will require some sort of VMWare-like scenario or an update of Virtual PC. Somehow I feel the former is more likely to be the case.
Unless you're a gamer wanting to run PC games at native speeds, I would have thought that the ability to run Windows on an intel Mac without rebooting would be an acceptable course of action (minimise effect of malware, ability to restore from a saved image, speed and convenience of switching).
If other forums are any indicator, there seems to be an awful lot of interest in a MacBook Pro that can run multiple OS's, so if you're patient, the options will come.
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