DISQUS

My advice would be to first setup Boot Camp and get everything you need installed and configured on XP/Vista (use XP unless you NEED Vista). Use XP/Vista as needed and see how often you use it. At that point, evaluate if you actually need Parallels or Fusion. E.g. is one of those programs worth the cost to you. If they are, buy one and then point the program to use your Boot Camp partition as a VM. Done. As noted above, you can how run Windows native or through a VM.

One difference in Fusion and Parallels is that Fusion supports dual cores while (as I last checked about a month or so ago) Parallels does not. Both run on dual core systems, but only Fusion actually takes advantage of both cores. I think Fusion runs faster too (and it's built in Cocoa).

I really want native tagging, but I'm going to wait until 2.3.1 before upgrading I think. I'll let everyone else work the bugs out :-)

What do you think of 2.3 so far?

I don't use Facebook so I can't say much about the iPhone and Facebook directly. From what I do understand about the transferring of pictures from the iPhone, they are only done via email. So unless Facebook has email updates, I'm not sure it can be done. Someone could prove me wrong, but I'm fairly sure that's an accurate statement.

FWIW, it sounds like you need MMS to perform those actions. MMS could come in a iPhone software update at some point but right now it doesn't support MMS.