[duncanawoods]

Agreed - I see VS2013 running very well in a VM even.

For me, VS is the strongest pull of the .Net platform after C# the language. It doesn't take me long in another IDE/language to sigh and wish for something to work as well as VS.

However, I am one of the few that would never use resharper. There are no refactoring features in the world that make a good trade for laggy typing.

[jeroen]

I run Win7 + VS2013 development environments in VMWare Fusion on my 17" MBP (4 core 2.4GHz i7, 16GB RAM and SSD). Running two at the same time is just a bit too slow for comfort, but one runs perfectly fine.

A good SSD is a big improvement, especially when compiling.

[MartinCron]

Hmm... Unless your computer is very old or poorly configured, there's no reason for ReSharper to cause laggy typing. Maybe you should give it another shot?