Running Quartus on an Apple Mac

I have a mac (several actually). Quartus runs fine under VMWare virtual machine. It actually runs better, because I can have a VM that is tailored just for Quartus. My PC (which I keep just to run non-mac programs) has lots of cruft.. it happens to be a Quad Core with 4GB of Ram. It is a pretty hefty box, and Quartus does run about 5% faster, but considering I am running it on a VM under OSX on a Core 2 Duo Laptop... It is plenty fast.

On a side note - a number of posts here were seemingly "anti mac".. I suspect that 100% of the "anti mac" crowd has never used one. If that is true, then your opinion use useless and you should keep it to yourself. I have used both, at least I have something to compare.. Okay, down from my soapbox.

Quartus is currently supported on 3(?) versions of Unix. Macs run Unix. Again, to those that made lame comments about how FPGA's don't run on macs or whatever... never mind.

Adding "Mac" to the list of Quartus platforms would require some amount of work, but it should not be a prohibitive task, since the Mac supports X11 and is a Unix core. Porting Quartus to be a *native* Mac application, a cocoa app, would be more effort. It would be nice if they could at least get it to X11.