Tired of Xara running on virtual machine

[Sheff]

I'm in the same boat. The ONLY application that has kept me on a PC is Xara. I'm looking into VMware though. If I could find someone local who could run Xara on a virtual machine on a Mac, and it was tolerable, it might make me switch.

[Giovanni]

I'd prefer not to sound out-of-tune in this thread, but wonder why anybody mentioned the new Illustrator CS4 ?!?

For what I know its brand new gradient editor is a joy to use (WITH built-in transparency finally) and Adobe did a good job improving the workflow.

I still think Xara is better for price-performance balance, but for the Mac OS users out there...