Twins! OH GT1 owner who knows anything and everything!

I am thinking about getting me a GT1, really all I want to do is the programming stuff, but I don't want to get a T30 laptop.

Think I could run the software on a Macbook running a Virtual Machine with XP on it or something along those lines?

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Jeff
Current:
'07 Jeep Wrangler
'06 BMW X5 3.0i

Former:
'12 WRX; '08 WRX; '06 BMW X5 4.8is Dinan S1; '02 BMW 530i Dinan S2