On my mac bootcamp works the best as parallels you don't have to reboot but it kills your battery power quickly and not as efficient.
To change your IP you need to first determine if your IP from your carrier is static or dynamic. If dynamic best way to change it is to just...
running windows 8 use to run mac os x lion however after getting my hand on the windows 8 preview it's just amazing it's really fluid and works...
Galaxy Nexus from Samsung works amazing, debating against the SGS3... seems really nice but not much of a difference to justify the price.
VLC player works the best its lightweight and has a bunch of built in codec's and does well with digital audio output 5.1 and 7.1
