Re:From experience: DON'T (Score 1)

Well.... easy now. A windows / linux box is a little different than a Win / OSX box on the new intel macs. You are correct in that you have delays in updates but I wouldn't go so far to say that this is any different that supporting 2 machines. In Windows with a good group policy any of your updates or virus defs will update as soon as the machine comes on. If you are using the right tools with OS X, (like Apple remote desktop) you can also have them run tasks when the machine comes on. Also using apple remote desktop you can issue one command and reboot all the machines in to windows. You could script that if you really want to be sure that both sides get the updates you are looking for. In a school setting (such as mine) the dual boot is amazing! Students have access to multiple OS's and applications all in one room. ...I'm not sure what kind of cron jobs you need to run on a workstation anyway